Canadian Railroads To Limit Farmers’ Railcar Orders

[SASKFARMER3]

Canadian railroads have reduced the number of railcar orders farmers will be able to place this crop season in a bid to manage rail congestion and prevent the kind of monthslong grain bottleneck that plagued North America last winter, says a story in the Wall Street Journal.
The move by Canadian National Railway Co. and Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. to set limits on total railcar order requests by grain-loading facilities is a change from previous years, when the loading facilities were able to place an unlimited amount of railcar order.
CN, the country’s biggest rail company, will allow grain shippers to place a maximum of two weeks’ worth of railcar orders, while CP will give shippers up to four weeks of orders. For smaller shippers, CN said orders can’t be bigger than twice the car capacity that each grain-loading facility can handle.
And the Shit show we farmers have to deal with in Canada Continues.
Worst country in the world to farm!!!!!!!!!!

[tweety]

You mean elevators selling and ordering 52,000 grain cars worth of grain in a week when only 5,000 are possible was not workable?

[sumdumguy]

Its a non-issue. Canadian railroads have been doing that all along, they just verbalized their policy. They have all the cards and our spineless flim-flams ain't gonna do anything about it.

[bucket]

But if the elevator misses a week of cars what happens?

[bucket]

You forgot the part where the railways called them "phantom" car orders.

My local can be plugged for weeks and miss regularly scheduled trains. Must be a phantom order to move grain.

[Braveheart]

Canadian railroads must be the only companies in the world wanting to limit orders. Limiting orders is like anti business. (There's the setup line for you.)

This does read like fluff piece in a newspaper without enough news to fill all the columns.

SF3, worst country to farm? Really? There's more than one other country where your Kelly harrow would trip land mines.

[bucket]

It's not fluff, it's the railways release.

More shit before the OIC expires.

Lobbying. And what going on with the farmers side?

[SASKFARMER3]

Yes that was over the top brave but doesn't any one feel farmers in Canada are looked down on where as other countries the population is proud of them. Farmers first rest of the industry come later.
Well in Canada its Rest of the industry and then their is us right at the bottom with most having a good foot on our necks.

[bucket]

We have a poor farm lobby. Their efforts should have been front page every week since the OIC was issued.

Every commission's or council's revenue depends on farmers selling and moving their crop. Check offs don't come from crop in the farmers bin does it?

instead they want us to grow more that no one will buy or transport.

[wmoebis]

bucket they know it will sell sooner or later and they will get their cut no matter the price we get.
Now check offs were set on a % basis the commissions would be looking for price discovery not just bushels.

[SASKFARMER3]

This we have to grow more attitude is Bullshit.
We need a good old drought in USA and Canada to fix this shit. Throw in Europe and SA. AH life would be great.

[sumdumguy]

Grain car bottleneck they are talking about. Maybe oil car bottleneck? Every day, several times a day, trains with 100 to 150 potash cars plow through Regina. I never see any grain cars -nodda one! What happened to all the cars we once owned? Some day I am going to sit at the tracks on north ring road and count the potash cars and grain cars. Funny railways want to limit grain car spots. They should be reminded of history and how they came to exist.

[Klause]

I'd like to know how much cn cp bnsf etc spend on anti pipeline lobbying...



We need to get these pipelines built so oil is no longer a business for the railway... they'll come back and haul grain.



However I think elevators shouldn't be able to book 3 100 car spots for a specific week and not be able to fill them... that happened here a couple weeks ago when cn actually filled the order...

[grower99]

A broker recently told me that last year's shipping fiasco and the high basis charges due to the lack of any half assed coordinated movement of cars cost farmers about $1.50 per bushel on wheat.For 50,000 bushels that's $75,000! He said that nobody really knows if the high basis charges were "fair" or inflated by the grain companies. Demurrage is paid for vessels sitting at port and rail cars sitting and not being loaded and moved into the system. I haven't heard from the wheat growers or grain growers on this announcement or any of the commissions...

[Daylate]

Real reason they did it!
Simple. Less transparent in that system!
Instead of them having to report them being behind 11 or 12 weeks they will only show being behind 2 weeks. Wasnt shareholder friendly,that spot on their site that showed them being that far behind.
What a bunch of retards we have running agriculture in this country!!!