Is anybody moving anything? Getting ridiculous!

[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.

[farmaholic]

What is the problem?
Contracted grain not being accepted?
Not able to price and deliver grain?
If some of you are in "one horse towns" maybe your only option has no sales program.
Rail?
Port terminal issues?
In the old ___ days (how's that blackpowder). Terminals would likely be happy to take and store ___ grain for "storage" revenue(if it didn't screw up their capacity and ability to manage turn-over). Companies without their own wheat sales programs still could handle wheat for the old ___. Maybe they're pulling grain from areas with certain quality parameters? The reasons/excuses are endless. We're in a new era..... Good luck fellows.

[blackpowder]

Thank you.

[tweety]

Goodrum, what are you willing to pay to have movement? How much a tonne?

Land of plenty, dats funny because if it wasn't the land of plenty there wouldn't be any problems of delivery or price.

[farmaholic]

Seed the Praries back to grass, release the bison herds, and give it back to the Natives. The ****ing pot(money) isn't bottomless. Bullies...

[farmaholic]

The pricks haven't seen enough efficiency gains from branchline abandonment, 112 car spots instead of stopping every 8 to 16 miles with 8-12 car spots and elevator/terminal consolidation making the above possible. Who paid for the concrete terminals? Who is paying for the damaged roads? Reduced pulling power and work force? Leasing out needed "capacity"?

How much more am I willing to pay? ****ing ZERO. How much more are you willing to give them in concessions for nothing in return?

[Klause]

Stonepicker...

You can call bullshit all you want... just saying where we pick up corn down around St. Jean... winkler... Altona... Gretna... Same story from every guy we haul from.