Ok need marketing help! Marketing in a shitty delivery system!

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I guess its probably no different here SF3. I think you could show up and deliver grain at the elevators but you may not like the price. Feedlots book in advance for sure in an effort to schedule deliveries and make sure you can get the cattle fed every morning. Most yards only have a week or so of grain storage though many are starting to have more. I also think most would take small spot deliveries ( if the price was right) but again storage the issue. Difference in my experience is that feedlots honor their commitments. The situation you describe in trying to market grain is the same as we have experienced with the beef packers. Book inventory in advance by offering what appears to be a good deal and then pick off everyone else trying to sell cash and then force them to wait for the animals to be delivered and processed. It is a definite strategy used by companies when they are in a situation to apply leverage on suppliers. End result in cattle feeding is everyone signs contracts to deliver just so they can be assured of getting cattle killed on time. Their lender may even insist. The irony is we now have less catte available ( for lots of reasons) and people who sell cash are doing the best by far. I understand the frustration of not being able to deliver on a contract and the people offering them should be held accountable. I don't believe the government can or well do a lot here. Producers need to change the way they do business. Many industries in Canada are in the same boat, (Oil, grain, livestock). We need better pipelines, better rail, more domestic value added ) and more markets around the world if we think we want to increase production profitably.