Monday Time to Blitz the Phones!

[TOM4CWB]

Ianben,

"SPRING 2014. We are all fully ... of service , CP Rail blamed the weather but the truth is Mr. Hunter. Harrison, CEO for CP Rail, since mid-2012 has laid off 4550 people, and removed 400 locomotives and 11,000 railcars off the rails.simpsonseeds.com/wp-co…/…/2014/.../SSI_Spring2014_News_Web.p... "

Please note ... shippers dare not rial the great hunter!!!

Sooo...

We are not all that different here... Simpson is a Shipper and a grain farmer.

I am meeting with Pulse Canada CEO Gord Bacon over the next couple of days... at a Strategic Dev. session of Alberta Pulse Growers by Calgary.

We will make the most of this time to go through these issues and put together a plan of Action.

Cheers!

[bucket]

Tom

You mean you won't be talking about research and development of fixing root rots in pulses?

You mean the transportation file is as important as (if not more) than fancy varieties or R&D.

You mean people are starting to realize that increased production requires more capacity in infrastructure?

There is a guy at the CGC that recognized it 20 years ago. He has ties to this political party that is in power.


Doesn't seem like many people that got our vote have done much to correct the problem.

You have obviously been orphaned by a organization that has ritz's ear because we don't see the organization's executive on here defending your position.

I wish you the best.

[TOM4CWB]

Bucket,

No need to defend my position... it speaks for itself!

Pulse Canada has truly been an innovator and done much hard work with grain transportation logistics with a specialist another great asset for growers; COO Greg Cherewyk (204) 925 445

[ianben]

Again looking at things I have learnt.

You will have to pay your own transport cost without the CWB. location location location.

I farm ten miles from Liverpool, 2 flour mills 1 oilseed crusher , more feed mills than I can count within 25 miles, Cerastar 1million tonne feed wheat sweetner manufacturing plant 20 miles away in Manchester, oats have two outlets porridge at Morning foods in Crewe, dog food in Ormskirk both 20miles. Malting Barley is about 90 miles to malster but we have managed to do a local deal with a brewer who want brewed and grown in Lancashire(local) on his label.


All of this I have taken the trouble to learn an realise what is acheivable and which crop the market wants.
I have discovered the advantage my location gives me. Even in the UK this amounts to a premium of about £10/tonne compared to someone more distant.

You may get more trains but some way you will have to pay for them individually.
Are you willing to pay more for a better service.

Dont forget you have to compete with my location for delivery into Liverpool so it must come from your grain check.

[bucket]

Except we still have problems that occurred 20 years ago.

I enjoy reading guys bios about the hard work they have done on our behalf only to end up with the same problems and no solutions a decade later.

The railways created a trucking industry. Sent their freight to the public highway system for all taxpayers to pay for that is unaffordable.

The railways reduced their fleets, called themselves more efficient and sent the money to shareholders like bill Gates (who could care less about highways in saskatchewan) while holding the economy of canada hostage to this type of moronic logic.

Meanwhile all these people that have this transportation experience watched it happen are getting called brilliant with their expertise. They have been spending check off dollars on transportation - where are the results of that investment?


Sorry I expect these guys are well versed in transportation but where or when is it going to come to the point that they realize that nothing short of nationalizing the railbeds and having open running rights is going solve these problems?

I don't like the idea of more government employees but create a rail transport coordinator. Know where the trains are and where they have to go and ensure they do it safely. Airlines do it every day. And they don't have two rails to keep them on track.

The current system is not working.

[TOM4CWB]

Ianben,

Good points. The sad point... is that we pay more than enough now... and should be getting better transport services than are now provided.

Therefore... when there is a breakdown, and the utility essential service fails repeatedly... further action must be enforced. A 'Performance Bond" is not unusual now in much of Industry service provided in other services. The RR are now given a failing grade by all Shippers... so the appropriate response is a 'Performance Bond'.

[TOM4CWB]

Bucket,

I agree far too much freight is on the roads that should be on the rails. We can change this. We need a 'pull' system that creates great rail services. Now is the time for the 'Performance Bond' to assure those services are provided.. by the best provider... like Europe does now.

[stonepicker]

ianben, we've always paid our own transportation costs, with or without the cwb, under the cwb we also had to pay demurrage costs, at least we don't have to pay that now. The cwb is a non-issue. We have a small pop. and we grow quite a bit of grain so we have to export it and it's a long way to salt water. ( the crow rate paid for some of our transport costs in the distant past ) Huge diff. between here and Britain.

[foragefarmer]

Klaus

Boy are you ever sticking out your neck out here on Agriville bashing the Manitoba NDP Government. We all know the majority of posters on here detest the NDP party in general, so it takes a lot of balls on your behalf to start a thread like yours in a nice safe place.I personally think there all useless, as many other posters have stated above.

Klaus your post that followed was the one that show how little you know about Manitoba and Winnipeg as a whole:

"Kind of like people saying Winnipeg is an awesome metropolis... I've been in Winnipeg. .. Calgary... Edmonton... Regina... Saskatoon... Buenos Aires... Minneapolis... Fargo..."

"Of all of those Winnipeg is the dirtiest slummiest city".

I have been in every city you mention above, with the exception of Buenos Aires, and let me tell you in the winter they all look the same. Klaus in case you haven't realized it, snow turns brown when you salt and gravel streets. I was recently in Edmonton and it looked dirty as well, but I understood why.

Klaus if Winnipeger's are proved of where they live, that's a positive thing, in what way is this any of your concern. I have family and friends who live in Wpg and their neighborhoods are well taken of, and in no way look like slums as you describe them.

Klaus reread BTO's thread "Things to hate about Manitoba" a few pages back. Many posters mention many positive things they like about Wpg. Educate your self a little it won't hurt you.

Klaus you stated you moved from Manitoba, if you dislike it so much why are you running truck up and down our highways.

Klaus, I guess now you'll be suggesting to Agriville Admn I be banned from this site for stating my opinion as well.

[bucket]

Stonepicker

Don't you think we are still picking up the demurrage charges?

[ianben]

Stonepicker, UK exports grain too possibly 3 million tonnes, just not from Liverpool.
Need to be near Southhampton or east side of country for that.
Loss of CWB logistics must be contributing to the problems I read about. and just trying to point out it is likely to cost you all more in the future and some of you much more.

It is a global market and your distance from the sea and the rail line is your problem. location location location nothing can change it.

[stonepicker]

I remember cwb logistics, they would plug the elevators with one grade of wheat and then sell a different grade at the coast and then complain that the railroads weren't getting it there in time. And the farmer would pay all the demurrage on the ship through the pool accounts. Oh and then there we sat with our bins full of grain and nowhere to haul it.I prefer the free market. Ianben, do you have a national grain agency in britain that requires you to sell you grain only through them? And then they'll tell you what your gonna get paid for it, you don't have a choice. We could send a few guys over and help you set one up.

[ianben]

The thread is about who you ring tomorrow.

What is, and more importantly is not going to change in the next few years in your location.

When you work out what it is possible to change give them a ring.

My Uk examples were just show what opertunities my location gives me.

When you know what your location gives you at least know what is achieveable.

If you think the government and railways are/can fix this get straight on the phone.

Sometimes you have to admit there is no one to phone.

Here BSE 1996, no one to phone.
Stop rearing beef was the answer. Then find a different product somebody wants.

[bucket]

Bse here now. No one to phone because our ag minister says everything is OK .


Even though the cow came from the same farm or herd and CFIA didn't do there jib years ago. We are to ignore that fact.

[tweety]

farmaholic, I don't have one. I thought i did 15 years ago based on 50 before that, but when i saw how CN/CP and its big room full of lawyers can twist everything to its own bend, we literally have no way to make change.

We need a solution that can actually take hold.

For a recent example, even after gov't intervention, the railroads payed how much in penalties? I don't want to say its hopeless, but it sure seems that way. All the things bucket et al have posted has been tried with utter failure.

I'm pretty sure rockpile feels the same way, perhaps he can add to it.

Its why i asked, What should i say on this phone call?