Canada on the fringe of the grain export market!

[TASFarms]

Grain from west of Kindersley gets an extra 4 hours of rail travel before it gets west of Kindersley

[farmaholic]

Hopefully Ritz and Raitt can read. Rules for the new marketing environment should have been put in place before it was implemented not after. Now its damage control, reactive instead of proactive. If grain Producers have to rely on shipping their grain through what is essentially a monopoly (because of the fact the RRs aren't and DON'T have to compete for their respective business) and sell to what looks like collusionary grain buyers, there needed to be put in place a set of checks and balances for one of the weakest, yet most important, links of the Agricultural Industry chain, the Producer. For without the Primary Producer the GrainCos can close their facilities and the RRs realize less profits from loss of business and less competition from grain

[bucket]

Farmaholic

I think ritz just sent a bunch of money to a grainco and railroad funded organization to get a like minded individual to analyze data so farmers can pay a subscription to be told how grain prices are justified.


Never mind that the guys at the top of the government side of the grain industry identified problems back in 1997 that they have done nothing about since.

And every improvement requires the government to legislate changes.

This latest effort by ritz is just nothing more than political payback and will turn out like the order in council on the railways. No fines of any significance. And no thought to re-evaluating existing orders given the weather this winter.

Meanwhile this highly efficient railway hasn't dropped a car locally for over two weeks. Prior to that spot it was 5 weeks.

[fjlip]

They are off the hook soon, we will all export the 60 MMT in mini bulks.

[Braveheart]

Bucket, it's always Ritz, Ritz, Ritz. Raitt is Transport. She needs some of your lovin too.