Railway shutdown will cost Prairie farmers $17M a day: expert

A local expert says the railway shutdown that started Wednesday evening will be detrimental to Prairie farmers. "This is catastrophic to agriculture, to the province, in every facet," Milt Miller of Providence Grain Solutions told CTV News Edmonton on Thursday morning. "From the Edmonton region, down to Red Deer, across to the Saskatchewan border, there's close to probably $17 million a day of grain deliveries being delivered to the various elevators and processing plants. All rely on rail to mo