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[furrowtickler]

Reason why I detest unions

[westernvicki]

Reason why I detest unions

Unions have their place in negotiation, but with this should come the responsibility and respect for the needs of the industry they serve.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Reason why I detest unions

I've been thinking about public sector unions, I used to think they should be completely illegal. But I have reconsidered.
They should be mandatory, but they should represent the taxpayers, not the employees.

[helmsdale]

Elevator I regularly deliver to is suspending deliveries until there is a resolution to the shipping problem. FML, I was hoping to turn 2 hopper bins a couple times this year and prevent having to put a low value shit yielding crop on the ground. I dunno... just keep piling it on I guess. Just keep on "Livin the Dream!™?"

[blackpowder]

I hear you.
But you could be legally ordered to store your grain and told to build more bins.
How soon we forget.

[LEP]

Elevator I regularly deliver to is suspending deliveries until there is a resolution to the shipping problem. FML, I was hoping to turn 2 hopper bins a couple times this year and prevent having to put a low value shit yielding crop on the ground. I dunno... just keep piling it on I guess. Just keep on "Livin the Dream!™?"

Is this for contracted grain or something that you wanted to sell?

[helmsdale]

Is this for contracted grain or something that you wanted to sell?

Nothing contracted yet. In about a week once I had a real good idea on what the rest of the peas looked like yield wise, I was hoping to punch these hopper bins out so I could fill them again with durum. For the time being it looks like they'll have to stay full of peas.

[LEP]

I heard the same thing. No new contracted grain until the labor dispute is settled.

[helmsdale]

I heard the same thing. No new contracted grain until the labor dispute is settled.

The email sent out though, said even for contracted grain, you need to phone ahead to ensure they've got room for you. They're willing to work with customers on harvest deliveries, but by and large if you can store it, they'd prefer you store it.

[blackpowder]

Unions have their place in negotiation, but with this should come the responsibility and respect for the needs of the industry they serve.

Maybe unions should have their pension funds in the public stock of the companies they serve.

[Blaithin]

The email sent out though, said even for contracted grain, you need to phone ahead to ensure they've got room for you. They're willing to work with customers on harvest deliveries, but by and large if you can store it, they'd prefer you store it.

Once they’re full, they’re full. If a train doesn’t show up it won’t matter if grain is contracted or not. A lot are probably going to be running mostly on a first come, first serve, basis for harvest. Some may be keeping some space empty as turning space in case it ends up being a prolonged period of no shipping.

It’s a rotten time to have no shipping. Grain quality can be sketchy as fields are tested, bin space on farms can fill with half a truck left, plans for hauling off combine get nixed… strikes are always a pain but this one has the potential to be the king hemorrhoid.

[WiltonRanch]

If this turns into a prolonged fiasco where does it leave corn cars coming from the states to the feedlots?