Canadian Railroads To Limit Farmers’ Railcar Orders

[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!!!

[bucket]

If you think about the railway backlog as a multi industry problem something has to be done.

I think a really poor solution would be to wait until the new potash mines can't move their product.
Although when you think about it if the province wasn't making any royalty revenue off that new potash they might be more motivated to get involved.

Bottom line this problem isn't going away for any industry with growth that the government always wants to be in the photo with.

It's time for an overhaul.

[OneOfMany]

As i have stated before another reason why... " why we keep hearing the price of land is so much cheaper here than the rest of the world"

[farmaholic]

...who the **** cares anymore?

[bucket]

Farmaholic


I do but wonder why.

[bucket]

Bnsf is adding 1000 tonnes of railcar capacity every week. Times that by turns and that's close to 35000 tonnes a year by adding two cars per week to the system.
In Canada we read nothing of infrastructure plans from our railways.

They have limited their revenue by doing nothing to increase capacity.

A country that relies on exports this is going to explode into a multi industry disaster.

Maybe not today or tomorrow but doing nothing is a recipe for failure.

At least in the states the railways are seizing the opportunity by spending on there infrastructure and grabbing more of the revenue.

[farmaholic]

.....you are whipping a dead horse.

[Hopperbin]

Klause would be interesting to hear the full story. If cn is behind by a month and cars are ordered 100 every two weeks. Then they deliver them all in one week. I think cn is to blame on that one. They need to have a better handle on the system and be there. So grain companies have come to expect cars not to arrive and need to order more so they think. If cn delivers tooo many for the spot to handle it is all cn in my opinon. Shouldnt grain companies now demand cars show up?

[Hopperbin]

For smaller shippers, CN said orders can’t be bigger than twice the car capacity that each grain-loading facility can handle. 


Actually this can be interpretted many different ways. Need more Info.

[bucket]

Sorry folks. That is 10 cars per week . 2 cars per day.

Anyhow they are doing something to recognize the coming problems.

5 billion spent in infrastructure.

In Canada they would rather ignore the issue even though they admit they are not keeping pace.