Western Grain Elevator Assn

[farming101]

Viterra is putting 100 M into Pacific and Richardson 120 M into North Van.

[Braveheart]

That's good news. So now how does Rupert boost it's efficiency?

[oneoff]

Its all customers overlooking the bogus industry claims that "losing money" equates to not making some 20 % plus rate of return.

Preferably a lot more.

And definately at least as high a return as their most lucrative portion of existing business.

[wmoebis]

From Feb 13th 2013 WP:
Wade Sobkowich, executive director of the Western Grain Elevators Association, said there is only one pot of money, and farmers will receive less for their grain if they are paid for storage or given less dockage.

“If they pay farmers for on-farm storage, then money has to be taken away from somewhere else,” said Sobkowich.

You can replace the words dockage or storage with any other charge/cap or investment in port/inland facilities.

I don't think anyone is going to give up anything. Except of course farmers.
They will just find another place to extract it from.

Remember the CGC doesn't set fees anymore, they just report what the elevators are going to charge you. Which means what to us now? Charges are not even transparent, they are hidden in the basis.

[tweety]

Agrville certainly is good at identifying the problem......

over and over and over and over.

[farming101]

Prince Rupert came into its own last year.

Design capacity 7M tonne /year. In 2014 they did 6.456M tonne. 209,510 tonnes in size.

Compare to Vancouver.
Bulk shipping terminal space - 906,250 tonne. 2014 19.6176 M tonne

To be fair Prince Rupert mainly handles wheat and canola while Vancouver handles everything. Still Prince Rupert did well last year.

[Tandem007]

Brave heart look on Google earth at Vancouver and tell us all how they could put in loop tracks. problem we've got as farmers is just shooting mouths cd without knowing facts

[fjlip]

And the solutions need statesmen/women in gov and business that values all of the chain fairly. None can be GREEDY. Could take a few generations.

[farmaholic]

Thank you sawfly....

[farming101]

Prince Rupert doesn't have loop track. Turned the place 30 times in 2014.

Again, to be fair to Vancouver, the port does a phenomenal tonnage each year. Grain is only part of it. Congestion is a fact of life there.

[fjlip]

Any one know how Portland compares? Like 10 times Vancouver?

[MBgrower]

Tandem... "we farmers"? Didnt you mean to say YOU farmers?