Talking to different farmers from different locations, they see the Cwb differently.
Farmers that are on a branch line, use producer car loading sites, or independent farmer owned terminals are more in favor of the CWB.
Farmers that are closer to a main rail line or terminal like Viterra, JRI etc or farmers that have no rail service or no choice to where they deliver their grain are more likely to be anti board. This is the way I see it from talking to different farmers at the c to c.
There was some young farmers from Manitoba that started up a branch line and they have 3 producer car loading sites on their rail line. They were in favor of the Cwb.
If we lost our rail line and our farmer owned grain terminal we would be trucking our grain 100 to 175 km.
Like I mentioned before it would be great for my trucking business as I have lots of customers that I locally haul grain for now. I can haul 7 loads on an average day now/truck. If we had no rail line we would have to truck further and we could only haul 2 loads/day/truck. I would need over 3 trucks to haul what one truck hauls to our local terminal now. The trucking rates would go way up as there would be no choice for the farmers but to haul the further distance.
It would be bad for our roads bad for our communities. Once the rail line is removed there would be no getting it back.
Farmers that are on a branch line, use producer car loading sites, or independent farmer owned terminals are more in favor of the CWB.
Farmers that are closer to a main rail line or terminal like Viterra, JRI etc or farmers that have no rail service or no choice to where they deliver their grain are more likely to be anti board. This is the way I see it from talking to different farmers at the c to c.
There was some young farmers from Manitoba that started up a branch line and they have 3 producer car loading sites on their rail line. They were in favor of the Cwb.
If we lost our rail line and our farmer owned grain terminal we would be trucking our grain 100 to 175 km.
Like I mentioned before it would be great for my trucking business as I have lots of customers that I locally haul grain for now. I can haul 7 loads on an average day now/truck. If we had no rail line we would have to truck further and we could only haul 2 loads/day/truck. I would need over 3 trucks to haul what one truck hauls to our local terminal now. The trucking rates would go way up as there would be no choice for the farmers but to haul the further distance.
It would be bad for our roads bad for our communities. Once the rail line is removed there would be no getting it back.