I agree and have brought this forward many times. Some producer owned terminals do reimburse for dockage. I have never fallowed up if you are then charged frieght on gross or net.
This is a Grain Commission issue as far as I can see. They okay and regulate the charges the companies set. If cleaning is done on prairies should we be paying frieght to port? Where is that money anyway?
My bigger question is why are inland terminals liscenced as primary elevators? They clean and ship to export standards. They make direct shipments to local end users and ship to export both USA and Mexico as well direct hits to boats on the west coast and throught the winter rail down east.
Think for a minute what we would gain if high troughput inland TERMINALS were liscenced by the CGC as TERMINALS. Blending would all come back to producers instead of the grain companies.
We would save the frieght on dockage. All stalks would be inspected or at least audited by a third party.
Why do producer cars on general get better grades and less dockage?
There is a lot of money made between my endgate and the boat and it is not getting back to farmers and a lot of it is comming right out of our pockets by the issues you have raised.
We can't blame the grain companies, they are doing the best job they can and are making money (on a whole) for thier shareholders. We can't totally blame the CWB thier hands are tied by the Grain Act and the system, they are marketing arm only it is the CGC that regulates the handling of grain.
This is a Grain Commission issue as far as I can see. They okay and regulate the charges the companies set. If cleaning is done on prairies should we be paying frieght to port? Where is that money anyway?
My bigger question is why are inland terminals liscenced as primary elevators? They clean and ship to export standards. They make direct shipments to local end users and ship to export both USA and Mexico as well direct hits to boats on the west coast and throught the winter rail down east.
Think for a minute what we would gain if high troughput inland TERMINALS were liscenced by the CGC as TERMINALS. Blending would all come back to producers instead of the grain companies.
We would save the frieght on dockage. All stalks would be inspected or at least audited by a third party.
Why do producer cars on general get better grades and less dockage?
There is a lot of money made between my endgate and the boat and it is not getting back to farmers and a lot of it is comming right out of our pockets by the issues you have raised.
We can't blame the grain companies, they are doing the best job they can and are making money (on a whole) for thier shareholders. We can't totally blame the CWB thier hands are tied by the Grain Act and the system, they are marketing arm only it is the CGC that regulates the handling of grain.
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