Week 4 CGC report mistake?

[farming101]

What happened? Week 3 had 714,000 tonne in transit by rail and now week 4 reports 228,000? Probably a fat finger mistake.

[bucket]

In any case doesn't look like they met the ordered targets?

[sumdumguy]

So, what are the consequences for them not making the targets? Do you think the elevqtors ars shipping or are they saving tne good grain to mix with this year's poor quality?

[bucket]

I don't know. We are in the dark about movement.

Government issued an order. If the railways and grain companies don't comply it would seem they ate the ones setting the rules.

No farmer group is on top of it anyway indicating farmers as a whole are happy with the outcome.

[Rareearth]

> Canadian Pacific’s New Rail Plan Criticized: Canadian Pacific’s new plan to resolve their grain car backlog, which calls for elevators to cancel some existing car orders. CP says the cancellations are necessary in order to implement a new rail car order and shuttle system. Critics say the move makes it falsely appear that CP has caught up on its backlog and essentially ignore the massive grain delays. About 2 weeks ago, CP’s backlog was between 200 to 2,000 cars. Following the cancellation of what they have called “unneeded” cars though, they report they are backed up by no more than 50 cars.

[Rareearth]

> Minnesota Asking For Fed Help With Rail Delays: Governor Mark Dayton has asked the US Surface and Transportation Board to pressure railroads for more clarity and accountability on grain shipment backlogs. Dayton says the railroads have failed to adequately explain why they can not make more railcars available to move agricultural products and that farmers need to know the railroads’ plans to with it. He pointed out that BNSF’s last weekly report accounted for 2,671 grain cars among a fleet of 25,313, and asks “What is the status of the other 90% of cars not addressed in the report.” Going into this year’s expected record harvest, it’s estimated 100 million bushels of last season’s grain is still in state grain elevators, with another 100 million bushels stored on farm awaiting shipment.

[fjlip]

More today...
"Deregulation has been a popular theme in U.S. politics for decades, but a Surface Transportation Board hearing here last week on railcar shortages and service delays provided an example of how dependent rural America still is on a federal regulatory agency to push the railroads to provide vital services. The BNSF Railway Company and the Canadian Pacific Railway Company move commodities from the northern tier of states stretching from Minnesota through the Dakotas and Montana to the ports in Washington State and to processing facilities elsewhere. But if the carriers do not provide cars to ship wheat, corn, soybeans, and other commodities this fall, farmers and agribusiness risk losing billions of dollars and the U.S. reputation as a reliable supplier of agricultural products will be tarnished, a wide range of witnesses testified at Thursday's hearing. Citing a study showing that North Dakotans have already lost almost $67 million due to rail delays and could lose another $95.4 million, North Dakota Republican Gov. Jack Dalrymple told the board the situation "is about the individual elevators and farmers out there who have no place to go—they have no power, no influence over the situation except for you." (NATIONAL JOURNAL)