wheat

[farmaholic]

...I doubt it!!! Age has a tendency to open eyes wider!!! (I'm not saying you're old though)

[bucket]

52 ....is that old?

[bucket]

I must feel old as I think back to the nonsense of rail line abandonment as a cost effective solution.

Lately in the last ten years as I drive different routes I wonder if instead of ripping out 200 miles of track it might of made more sense to finish the last 30 miles to offer more competition.


Now all highways have to be built for heavier loads which makes the road bed the equivalent of a rail bed.

Brilliant hey.

Environmentally. ... a little short sighted as well.

[sawfly]

public good does not factor in when a corp.s only interest is a bottom line.

that is what govt. is for.
to manage and plan the direction.

unfortunately our past govt.s have had no vision . can't think a week ahead.

shipping crisis was a perfect example.

RRs take their full compensatory rate , profits . and expand into the USA. why waste $ in canada when they will get all the traffic here no matter what.

line grain co.s see the selling pressure is way greater than the RRs ability to move it.
hey good opportunity to pad the basis 1$ a bushel.

farmer needs $ or just to get grain off the ground will take whatever beating the grain co.s want to dish out.

the RRs did ok , expanding to the US

Richardson's did really good, pay for viterra in a couple of years . and now are buying oil co.s

the farmer paid for all of the above.

now the RRs are kinda pissed . that the grain co.s pocketed money that was
theirs to steal.
they have the monopoly, only fair that they get the full benefit.

with the rate cap gone
next time the port price is almost double the inland price. ( because of poor service)
raise the rates higher.

it has been that way it for 40 years
the poorer the service the more they can charge. ( increase demand)

the Ritz solution
not that i am expecting anything brighter from the liberals.

[farmaholic]

Careful sawfly....talk like that will have your name (put on/taken off) lists.

We joke about the differnt styles of conspiracy theory hats available....sad part is none are needed.

Sometimes the truth hurts.

"The truth is like poetry....and most people hate poetry!"

....sometimes hard to understand but there is subliminal messages. Read between the lines.

[ajl]

Do we know that all the ships sitting in Vancouver are contracted. I suspect a number of them are there because nothing else to do. There are bags of grain here but that may be because the fields are too soft to go get them.

[wmoebis]

Or if the ships are contracted, to who holds the contract and for what product?

[bucket]

Oh you guys are talking about a transparent system....good luck with that.

That's like asking for mandatory sales reporting.

[farming101]

I guess anyone who knows the ins and outs of shipping may laugh
cause what do I know? But,
I highly doubt any ship sails into the strait of Juan De ***a
without an order.
I have watched on the ship tracking websites the odd ship drift around on the high seas outside the strait.

The tariffs and charges for ships destined to berth in Canada's west coast runs to 11 pages.
I doubt anyone would decide to show up and see what happened. The charges start immediately.

So what's going on? English Bay is plugged. Right full. The majority of the ships
are no doubt there for grain, Grain Monitor says 26 ships in Vancouver. Two have been in port since the week of Feb 13-19.

There are 4 in port at Pr Rupert. 3 canola, 1 wheat. 3 more wheat due before the end of the month.

Obviously coordination is suffering. Possibilities: wrong or misgraded grain is railed in, bad weather for loading(terrible weather during week 32), ships show up ahead of schedule, railways have parked cars cause they think they can stretch this work out till new crop, breakdowns, the list goes on.

I'm going to place a lot of the blame on poor railway performance. Unloads have been trending down for
4 weeks into Vancouver. They normally should be trending up in spring. Pacific terminals need another 1600 cars to get up to working capacity.

[HITTGrapevine]

I'm curious about grading accuracy too. Wiseguy, have you had grading disputes?