Why would ANYONE... buy a laker? The --Algobay--

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fransisco

On durum, the cwb is short again and may end up paying demurrage again. That is why they brought out another gdc on durum with the carrot to push into new crop no charge.

When talking to the cwb, they can't figure out why farmers won't deliver durum. I suggested it might have something to do with the piss poor price and the fact the PRO means nothing to future prices. And they won't be fooled again. Just show farmers the money like every other commodity is doing.

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Vader

Care to explain why the cwb is buying DNS and selling it in the southeast US?

I thought they were supposed to sell canadian grain and maximize returns for canadian farmers, not poke their noses into the US market using US grain. Little bit out of their mandated area?

[Hopperbin]

Ya the hopper cars are the best deal in the world. They are sitting south of Humboldt Sask on an abandoned rail track about a 1000 of them. Rusting away.

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Hopper

Like the justification for the boats, the railcars are operated in a pool. By letting them sit and no one from the cwb monitoring them, if they get 1 cent back they figure they are making money.

The cwb like to say we own railcars, but for an 80 million dollar investment, you would think someone would follow turnarounds and tonnage shipped using those cars. And report it somewhere in the annual report so farmers could evaluate the investment.

Just talk to a land management company and they want info on your farming practices before and during the time you rent with them. Mostly so they can report it to their investors as a sound and sustainable investment.

The cwb doesn't think that way, as a farmer controlled organization.

[TOM4CWB]

STRANGE;

The CWB was telling us yesterday in Macklin that the CP folks were short of rail stock and that was a reason they are soooo far behind!

Does this now mean... Locomotives... and we must buy some of them for CP????

Then the CWB could lend them to Woods and co around the country when CP didn't need them!