wheat

[riders2010]

to board or not board? Where is that Saudi? I want my trains back!

[bucket]

Well if gerry hadn't been caught ****ing a few of the animals below or acting like them .....farmers might have a better system today.

550000 tonnes a week shipping

2.1mmt floating at the west coast waiting for grain.

Etc etc etc. New roll of tinfoil.... it's all good.

[Robertbarlage]

We never had trains

[sumdumguy]

The CWB was a powerful institution within Canada.We know not what the cost to wheat growers was for that power but Special Crops were at a distinct disadvantage with the "board" and in the fall and winter, we almost had to sell our wives to get a car, now not so. The Board ruled the roost and the railways danced to their tune. I don't think Ritz dealt with railways after the monopsony. Maybe the liberals will stand up for grain shippers. You think?

[Klause]

Bucket I think there's more ships sitting than grain... all the guys we haul from are getting pretty much cleaned out...


Either the crop wasn't as big or?

[bucket]

Klause

Local 10000 tonne elevator can fill in 2 days after a train .... then sit for three weeks plugged.

It doesn't get a train until the big sister at the end gets 112 car spot.

[Guest]

klause , you are not supposed to talk that way ! if statscan says it was that big , then it was . they are playing us at every turn

[bucket]

I must have missed the memo where ships come to the west coast of canada to hang out.

Plenty of nicer weather ports to sit in ...wouldn't you think?

Those boats were contracted to be there for something?

I get that ocean rates are in the shitter so demurrage might be less now as well?

But there is a contract for grain to move in those ships?

[farmaholic]

New headgear for the dangerous/hazardous conspiracy theories:



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[bucket]

Farmaholic

Oooh! I like that.

Not as pointy. I am a little dulled at this time in my life.

[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.