Grain movement and prices

[macdon02]

No fup in stating an opinion, you follow EW cotton? They better be wrong. Hoping protein premium hangs in cause if wheat goes to feed value I ll be looking for a cash advance and sweet spot in third world country.

[ado089]

Could be tough to get paid for protein this year with the drought in the US.

[fjlip]

Prt will be a BIG discount if ours is low due HIGH US levels!

[Hopalong]

Attention has shifted from rail movement to prospective lower Canadian and higher world production.
We must not ignore expected increasing demand for grain and other shipping capacity in future years.
Instead of increased regulation and penalties, grain shippers and farmers can work together on incentives to get more investment and competition from railways.
A start would be more of a willingness to work together by grower groups with elevators and other grain handlers and buyers.
Discussions and negotiations are a better bet than a confrontational or adversarial approach.

[ado089]

Hopalong, it's pretty hard to work together when the rails have a **** you attitude and language like "right sizing" is being used. I'm a big fan of rewarding good behavior but over the decades when it comes to farmers dealing with rails it's one compromise after another. Another thing to keep in mind is that the big private company of CN has only existed as a private company for less time than most, if not all of us have been alive. No company could build from scratch in 1995 what the government sold as CN. There has to be some responsibility that comes with a deal like that.

[Hopperbin]

Young kid here just going for conductor training by cn. I believe that ia track switching hooking unhooking. 70 thousand first year pay. 140 later.
Somehow cn has not been hiring people in the correct locations for this job so they have been also paying hotel and food expenses to move them around. I suppose with some inflation thesejobs will pay 200 grand in just over 10 years its not like these guys are nurses or doctors. **** me six months training.
**** is there opportunity out there.

[LEP]

Within six months any initiative or perseverance will be drummed right out of him.

After three years he won't bend over to kiss his own butt.

[blackpowder]

And that's putting it mildly.
Recruiting ads on radio here.
A cost of $200k per man to watch the crew park the train, blocking grid road, walk across hiway, take a break at Timmies, saunter back. Happens regularly here. And the rest of us go back to shit service as we ship the Filipinos back.
We are becoming totally stunned, and the unions are laughing their asses off!