Ackman/canadian pacific

[tweety]

Maybe the govt should limit how much grain you can produce.

[Rareearth]

The go t is in full control. Taxation, limiting the profitability.

The way the financial security is through the trade balance. Has nothing from Cotton sunk in?

[farmaholic]

Where's hopalong?

Nationalizing it would turn it into a bloated bureaucracy that would likely never be profitable. But to leave it the way it is and have it nearly crippling sectors of the Western Canadian economy isnt right either. Regulate the bastards if they don't want to play fair, by the looks of their "achievements" they hardly need to increase rates, unless all tbe gains came from only cutting
expenses (ya, right).

How about re-investing some of that money in increased capacity or some maintenance (like trimming the forest{on the prairies, lol} along some of their right of way, so traffic can see them coming
around blind corners.

Can you imagine the power you would have if it was
just you and a couple of other guys farming all of Western Canada? Don't forget to lift your boot off the throat of your customers and suppliers when they start gasping and turning purple, you might need them to stay in business---for your sake.

[bucket]

Wonder if he could explain 1997. And the elimination of the crow rate and branch line abandonment.

Wasn't that all about facts and that farmers were supposed to get some of the benefits of efficiencies.

[boarderbloke]

More capacity will come in the shape of tank cars , not hopper cars.

[fjlip]

Well said farmaholic...

[Hopperbin]

Buyers can pre position grain any time they want. We should have surge capacity in my opinion. That is the problem.

[Hopperbin]

I take it the sane types are responsible for the ****ednup shute openning on the drag auger undernthe pit. Muther ****er at adm watson fir the last two years. I said get a farmer to go under there and fix it. Was told we have been under there hundreds of times. I dont think so. Its not ucking hard.

[farmaholic]

QUOTE...

"Railways make a decent return on grain and we would have moved grain without quotas being set."

........

"It is a fact that rail rates for grain have been largely flat, tracking inflation, for more than ten years. Today, the average rail rate to ship a tonne of grain from the Prairies to Vancouver is about $35. Because of the “maximum revenue entitlement”, these rates are also lower than the average for other commodities and have grown less than inflation. How can we encourage more investment in the grain supply chain?"


MY WORDS...

REALLY, you want to talk inflation and where our commodity prices are relative to a two or three decades ago. My commodity prices are NOT INDEXED to inflation I can only wish they would have tracked inflation. Cry me a ****ing river...arrogant asshole!!! The Primary Producers of this Industry have no way of recouping steadily increasing costs. When I have the ability to pass on my increases, we'll talk!!!

I'm tagging out Cotton... your turn.

[bucket]

Gives you some insight into the arrogance of some Canadians.

[Hopperbin]

And then last year the ethanol plnt in belle plain has issues with straw from grain piles. Apparently I t took two months to clear a shute in one bin unload. Like **** get rid of the grate on top of the shute. But noooo.

[Oliver88]

It's always great to hear the a different perspective on an issue that affects us. In this case it is Michael Bourque, a Frenchmen from Quebec in a railway lobby group.

It was disappointing to only hear excuses and no solutions.

It would of been a breath of fresh air to hear possible solutions such as:
-new spending on infrastructure (twin railways to ports)
-improved air brake technology
-eliminating the unionized gravy train at railway companies
-better cooperation with grain terminals.
-More focus on grain vs oil.
-Utilizing inter switching
-Allowing additional railway companies on Canadian tracks