Phos / mosaic

[AlbertaFarmer5]

We need to get used to this going forward. I think someone is actually taking the long view here, short term pain for long term gain on rthe ultimate strategic resource.

This will motivate north American supplies to fill in the void, then our food supply can't be held hostage to foreign interests. Eventually at least.

Mining and resource extraction are coming back home, Trump started it, this administration may be pandering to the eco-loons publicly, but behind the scenes, the repatriation continues to accelerate under Biden.

Same thing will be happening with rare earth's, already happened with energy.

[dustnbones]

Ports in canuckistan are not set up to import bulk commodities and the coast and mountains are a choke point so we are screwed. When urea was high a decade ago, some was brought in from china by Green Prairie International in containers, but that is about all the fertilizer importing that will happen. Phos will be a barrier to expanded production in the future.

We have a couple loads of phos with sulphur called Polar 42 on order from the local retailer, supposed to be a boat coming from China in the next week or so into Vancouver. First time I heard of someone bringing in anything from China.

[helmsdale]

MES15 imported vs elemental from Trail. Haven’t hauled from Trail myself but other guys say that by the time you detour down there, chain up and down sometimes several times, wait time, it’s a real money loser.
Waited 17 hours to dump barley once in Abbotsford because they wanted to unload a rail car of canola meal first. I didn’t see a driver of the rail car anywhere... trucking is so abusive.

O god... I destroyed $1200 worth of tire chains and split a $1100 tow job to the summit once upon a day. At least I "high marked"... if you ever see a bigfoot with tire-chains for jewelry, you'll know why as I threw them over an embankment and deposited them at the bottom of the valley coming off the salmo.

Also got to feel 4th gear fall to the bottom of the oil pan climbing out of cranbrook. It's a LONG shift from 3hi to 5lo.