7 Silver Linings For Ag In 2016

[farming101]

I think there will be some good progress made in the next while reducing the ship counts on the coast.

[bucket]

They need to move a million tonnes a week to the west coast to catch up and stay current. Not likely.

And thunder bay is starting to fire up.

Local mainline was pushing to thunder bay 2 weeks ago to stay ahead.

[farming101]

If the sales program is that big I'd say weld the doors shut.

[Klause]

Bucket where will this million tonnes a week come from????? Bins empty most grain gone. Elevators made sales they have no grain for... gonna bite them in the ass with a dough coming for most of the corn belt, southern plains and western prairies.



Lots of lentils and peas but average yields will be WAY DOWN. Too many guys who never grew any pulses growing lots this year...

[sumdumguy]

We had many acreage spikes in lentil growing, mother nature takes care of the overage. no worry! The same areas produce - the rest are chihuas chasing a greyhound bus.

[bucket]

Well someone booked 30 ships to load at the west coast.

[farming101]

Well it's not quite as bad as it sounds.
17 are either being loaded or are partially loaded.
Some are relatively small. Small handy size.

[wmoebis]

Anywhere to find out who and what is being loaded or waiting to be loaded where?

[farming101]

Not any detailed info like that for Vancouver.

Prince Rupert port authority does a good job. Of course there
is only one terminal at PR to keep track of.

[bucket]

Wmoebis

No its a secret. Lol.

And being partly loaded and sent back out to anchor is ****ing retarded considering the graincos were supposed to be able to coordinate things better.

2.0 mmt of space floating isn't that bad when ocean rates are low and demurrage as well.

Not so good if there is only 500000 tonnes moving west a week. But maybe my math makes it sound like there is 4 weeks space waiting.

Or maybe there isn't ships coming in next week.

Who knows ....farmers don't deserve that info.

[farming101]

Hey if somebody at Prince Rupert can go to work and put it up on their website
for one week out why can't somebody in Vancouver do it too. It's certainly no secret.

I guess the thread topic is kinda misleading.

Sorry SF derailed your topic.

[tmyrfield]

those 2 JD s680 sold to the same guy for $235k each.

[saskcanfarmer]

Bucket - Rail is moving grain at a record pace this crop year. You're on crack if you think we are anywhere close to 13-14.

[bucket]

So why are there 30 ships waiting and railways only moving 560000 tonnes week?

No one is bitching because demurrage is none existent. Ship owners can let them float they are not making much moving grain.

[saskcanfarmer]

Why not have a ship on standby? It costs virtually nothing to have them there and as a ship why not stick somewhere that you are going to get loaded instead of driving around aimlessly looking for a haul.