Musical ships

[Rareearth]

If I was a ship owner, and rates are break even or below cost( need income, just like new drilled wells) I would wait on the west coast for a new order as well. For lots of different reasons.

[bucket]

Rareearth


So by that same reasoning should farmers with contracts at shittier prices wait the delivery out and reprice at higher levels.

Will that work?

[bucket]

Governments need to work as regulators and a policeman when things get ****ed up.

The episode in 2013 had no penalties or repercussions. So the government has no will to act as such.

Rate increases are rubber stamped.


And what about a costing review?

[farming101]

Can't be protein problems. The Farmgate interview said poor premiums for protein this year.
1600000 tonnes of wheat other than durum in primary elevators and not in position. That's
the problem.

[wmoebis]

Is Richardsons the only company this is happening to? Where does one get this info?

[wmoebis]

Transparency would be nice to see what quality is in store and what the ships are waiting to load.

Are country elev delivering proper grades and protein for orders?

You can take 1 sample to 5 elev and get 5 dif results of grade/DDkgand prot. Are they shipping as accurately?

No universal standardized training.

[Hopalong]

RTK, hear what you are saying, not new and idea of banding together to get a better deal for us collectively still resonates.
Think that as farmers see themselves more as competitive businesses and less as a union type brotherhood it becomes more difficult to organize along those lines.
For better or worse, that is the way it is.

[farming101]

Wm, same name on the primary elevator as there is on the port terminal. There's got to be a way.

[Rareearth]

Bucket it's a observation that freight rates are very low, ships waiting for business should make them selves available.

For the costing review, what if the rates go up, careful what you wish for ( this seems most likely to me). Costing review is nice, so were all the previous reports.

Clearly the problem has been access and timely rail cars service. What are the solutions?

[saskcanfarmer]

Do you guys not realize how idiotic a costing review is?! Do you actually think we will get better service and capital investments in capacity if we pay them even less?!

[bucket]

How the **** can rates go up when they service one third the points compared to 30 years ago.

Grain goes direct to port.

Longer trains more efficient locomotives.

You guys got to get off trudeau's medicine.

The MRE can be eliminated when you have a fresh and current starting point. Not 1992.

[farmaholic]

Fine, give them more bigger carrots but you better get a bigger stick to hold in the other hand as well.

Bucket brings up valid points when he says bigger trains picking up at fewer points.

Sure wish I had a formula(taking cost increases and inflation into account and ignoring improved efficiencies at a cost to others in the chain) to ensure profits every time I seed a crop.

I don't like being held captive with a ransom....