Container in Container Out

[jd3007]

Good for you Klause. I hope it works out for you. The fertilizer market in Canada is controlled by a few big players and that's what allows them to keep raising the price. We need more of this happening and maybe they will start to wake up.

[MBgrower]

Good for you klause, just becarefull, one bad deal and all your profits are gone. Why isnt FNA brokering fertilizer containers from china to the prairies, charge us farmers a flat per tonne brokerage fee, and we pick up the container in calgary, regina, winnipeg, etc? Probably cheaper than building a new plant in SK. Selling wheat in a container more complex, given grading, risk of rejection on customer side.

[fjlip]

Payment, quality and very inconvenient are the risks. Shame if such small lots is cheaper and a better deal. Our export system is broken, everyone gets a cut and farmers get SFA, except more risk and work. Also this would NEVER work if all of us tried this.

[wmoebis]

MBgrower given the amount of cars I've herd of, (80/100) being off grade when they hit the ports when loaded by grain Co's I wonder if farmers couldn't do better. Plus producer can get official grade in bags, but not at elevator, only submitted.

Also maybe China (etc) isn't as particular as we are led to think. Look at the grain going into the domestic mills.

[stormnorm]

check website canest transit,its a new container loading operation at montreal harbor using and old grain elevator.

[cottonpicken]

Not sure but maybe you could negotiate a non cleaned price. They could do it for cheap less hassle for you they could use the by product probably a wash on making money with weights but maybe with mini bulks they wouldn't want that. But out the bin into a mini bulk would sure save pissin around.

[wmoebis]

Not all grain is exported commercially clean, Even tho we clean it they sometimes add dockage back in before shipping.
Think ov the deer shit fiasco. That was cleaned then added back into shipment.

Oh and lots of grain is shipped directly into domestic mills before cleaning even tho we pay for it to be cleaned.

[furrowtickler]

Well done Klause , thinking outside the box paves new roads .

[LWeber]

$9.00 at the farm...what does that tell you of the piece of shit basis calculations?

[TASFarms]

I have been toying with that same idea. Wouldn't gain very much going to 40' container. Two 20' is a superb load. Some of the trucks they have hauling are tandem axel trailers. I hope it works well for you.

[Klause]

The reason you use 20 is because they can be hauled by a tri axle trailer... a 40 loaded to max would require special trucking and be way more expensive.


Large containers usually are used to haul less dense material...


This is how most lentils peas and chickpeas leave canada.


We have a roller mill.... inherited it with the new place and started rolling oats selling it to horse people. Need more help but currently can get rid of 400 bu of oats a week and the price is insanely higher than elevator bid

[hobbyfrmr]

Klause,

Good work. How do you manage the time to do all of this? You must have to be at the farm when the container arrives to empty the fertilizer and reload the totes of wheat.

[phoenix64]

Klause are you using alibaba to source and sell these products?