Is anybody moving anything? Getting ridiculous!

[farmaholic]

"today" instead of to

[furrowtickler]

Interesting to see how the mood on here is in general reflected in the timeliness of grain movement and the quality of of that said grain.

[tweety]

SaskF3, how do you come up with 85%?

[GOODRUM]

Not sure where skfarmer got his numbers but I was told 90% by my banker.

[Klause]

I'm on the road 5 to 7 days a week... All over mb and sk and a little ab.


I have met 1 farmer who has said he is happy with movement.

That should be saying things.


Guys in Southern MB just haul across the border.... one farmer I talked to has sold 80% of his crop... Every bushel south of the line. Locals just haven't been able to handle the bushels.

[freewheat]

For the first time in my life, I have been unable to move a kernel of canola at my will. This is worse than last year. Thank goodness for peas and canaryseed. Canola used to be a phone call from delivery, not a telethon to find a dang buyer for some point in the next three months.

I have been on a "next week, maybe" basis with several delivery points on canola, for the better part of three months.

It is for me, WAY worse than last year.

And last year SUCKED...

In the meantme, RING THOSE PHONES,RING THOSE PHONES!

Where are we going? Well, not higher, let me tell you.

[SASKFARMER3]

Yea got a bag #2 hrs wheat in today. Ah were winning.
Cars loaded time will tell if their picked up.

[stonepicker]

Bullshit klause, not that many hauling south, grain is moving good here, terminal just got another 112 car spot loaded yesterday. A lot of farmers talked about moving grain south, not many are actually doing it

[Braveheart]

I know some 2014 wheat moved south from MB early, but since then opportunities in ND have eroded.

Price in southern MB is higher usually and movement generally better.

[GOODRUM]

Stonepocker and tweety , you guys must be from the same area. ?
There does seem to be better movement in some areas , and your fortunate enough to be in one and I won't argue with you over it, in return I'd appreciate it if you would not tell the rest of us who are experiencing poor rail service that there is no problem .

[stonepicker]

There is NO problem here. I haven't said there were no problems elsewhere. There's been grain moving problems somewhere for the last 40 YEARS for goodness sake! And no, tweety comes from the land of plenty, i'm from the socialist state of mb.

[Braveheart]

For those areas with problems, and we know they're real, we also need to look to the companies.

Unless car allocation has changed, cars are allocated to companies by zones. Within the zones the companies decide how many cars go to which delivery point.

No cars? Maybe it's not all Hunter and Claude?

[GOODRUM]

There may have been problems the last 40 years but not at this magnitude, what are the figures tossed around from last years performance??
$6 to $8 billion? And snowballed into another crop without catching up , so you guys that got the opportunity to haul should be a little more grateful of your position and a little less quick to judge those less fortunate.

[stonepicker]

Who says we're not grateful? just you. Who is being quick to judge? You. Don't put words in my mouth.

[macdon02]

After the shit show last year I sold this year's crop back in Dec 14 and then some. I left .80 on the table on wheat. Canola maybe .25. Everything gone but yellow peas. Sitting on two thirds of them, sold the first third for not near enough. Wheat, canola and oats went in the fall off combine. Could have been better but also worse. Had to get neighbors to fill canola contract. Bins are costing me more then they are worth, .09/bus carry on canola is what I figure plus risk of heating. I don't like what I'm doing but I can't keep going to the well buying equity when last year guys we're selling under $5 on wheat "for a profit". I need $300/acre. So now I'm chasing every last acre I can find to drop fixed cost without adding machinery.