Where did all the "bumper" crop experts go all of a sudden?????????????

[furrowtickler]

Townsend ...


Sometimes pictures do say a 1000 words.

[wmoebis]

Did you know its cheaper to use trucks from swift current to Lethbridge than shuttle a 50 car unit train of canola to the crusher?

How phucked is that...

Is that for producer or grain company? Don't grain companies have negotiated prices with rail companies?

[bucket]

Is that for producer or grain company? Don't grain companies have negotiated prices with rail companies?

I don't think the trucker is making much....

[wmoebis]

I don't think the trucker is making much....

Wonder what the actual average cost to pull a tonne of grain by rail is? Someone from one of the shortlines should know. What is the average cost by superB?

[Hamloc]

Notice anything familiar about Townsend and Burnett?.....yup it looks like they eat a lot of cake...they aint walking any fields ...they be puddles pretty quick....they are paper people....roid growers....

Actually the more interesting commonality Townsend and Burnett is that they are both former employees of the Canadian Wheat Board. In the article Neil Townsend refuses to back down from his 41 bushel per acre yield prediction. He says there is no way Saskatchewan gov. can be right, the math wouldn’t work, that would mean $14 canola. I can’t believe people would hire this guy for marketing advice!

[bucket]

Wonder what the actual average cost to pull a tonne of grain by rail is? Someone from one of the shortlines should know. What is the average cost by superB?

Fuel wise per tonne ...one would think rail would be lower....but if the crusher at lethbridge needs canola....the rail would be too slow even though there are few stops. ..50 cars would be 100 trucks....this system we have is insane.

[wmoebis]

Fuel wise per tonne ...one would think rail would be lower....but if the crusher at lethbridge needs canola....the rail would be too slow even though there are few stops. ..50 cars would be 100 trucks....this system we have is insane.

Yes well thought out plan. Suppose they can't pick up 10 cars from P&H, 5 from Viterra, 3 from PIO etc. Always said grain should be delivered to one elevator and buyers from each grain company have an office in the elevator buying and shipping. Ever been to cattle stock yards?

[jazz]

Well the canola just ran 42 on our place and most crop in the area seem to be in the same boat. Groceries in for 55, didnt happen. A quarter was even switched out to durum after the beatles ate it. Heat, flooding, frost. I would say Mr Townshend has been in the office too long.

[Guest]

Driving by the crushers in Yorkton the last few days I doubt there is going to be any canola left in the bins by spring.....wow line ups like I have never seen all the way up to highway 16.

that $10 carrot dangling this summer caught a lot of rabbits
although no-one will admit to it now

[Guest]

Well the canola just ran 42 on our place and most crop in the area seem to be in the same boat. Groceries in for 55, didnt happen. A quarter was even switched out to durum after the beatles ate it. Heat, flooding, frost. I would say Mr Townshend has been in the office too long.

you did good jazz , beat us
haven't saw under 50 here for a generation

[wmoebis]

Well the canola just ran 42 on our place and most crop in the area seem to be in the same boat. Groceries in for 55, didnt happen. A quarter was even switched out to durum after the beatles ate it. Heat, flooding, frost. I would say Mr Townshend has been in the office too long.

Grain stats are Kinda like weather forecasters can be constantly wrong and cost everyone big time but still never lose job.

[Guest]

Grain stats are Kinda like weather forecasters can be constantly wrong and cost everyone big time but still never lose job.

but lotsa people we trust and listen to were repeating the BS