Canada on the fringe of the grain export market!

[stonepicker]

- Lines are twinned, do you want every line twinned? Good luck getting more lines twinned through the mountains, the eco-freaks would tie it up for years. North-South, already have that too, i think there will be more down the road. Open running rights? If you were ceo of one of the RR cos. I think you would have trouble working out a deal too, i would like to see open running rights though. More warehouses? I've never had a contract that the line co. didn't honor. In 2011 they gave me a break when i couldn't honor my contracts, i don't have a prob. with them. Learn the futures market. There were penalties for poor performance last year, I haven't got stats with me but they did move alot of grain last year, and again there were no major prob. here.Mandatory reporting? Are you talking communist style stuff? Buy some shares in CN and CP and you can get their annual reports sent to your mailbox. they're publicly traded companies.

[stonepicker]

We've been waiting for years for u.s. gov. to approve keystone ( they finally did it ) what more could the gov. do? Gateway- Great idea, but good luck getting past the eco-freaks, native bands, B.C. gov. etc., how would you get past all the red tape. I would do what china does, if it's for the good of the country, just build it.East- west? the east holds us in contempt, good idea but same as gateway. Port of churchill? You don't think omni-trax is trying to get as much bus. through there as possible? Very short season and not too many want to receive grain from there

[bucket]

I like 8. Churchill is a inexpensive route.

Someone should be spending money there.

They could have grain positioned during winter and ready for day one when the boats come in.

[bucket]

Stone picker

Mainline from calgary to winnipeg isn't twinned.

[stonepicker]

Hmm, not up on my railroads i guess, didn't realize it wasn't twinned that far. I agree with you 100% that that particular stretch should be twinned. It'd be far more efficient. Anyways, i'm off to the wheatkings game.

[TASFarms]

Grain from west of Kindersley gets an extra 4 hours of rail travel before it gets west of Kindersley

[farmaholic]

Hopefully Ritz and Raitt can read. Rules for the new marketing environment should have been put in place before it was implemented not after. Now its damage control, reactive instead of proactive. If grain Producers have to rely on shipping their grain through what is essentially a monopoly (because of the fact the RRs aren't and DON'T have to compete for their respective business) and sell to what looks like collusionary grain buyers, there needed to be put in place a set of checks and balances for one of the weakest, yet most important, links of the Agricultural Industry chain, the Producer. For without the Primary Producer the GrainCos can close their facilities and the RRs realize less profits from loss of business and less competition from grain

[bucket]

Farmaholic

I think ritz just sent a bunch of money to a grainco and railroad funded organization to get a like minded individual to analyze data so farmers can pay a subscription to be told how grain prices are justified.


Never mind that the guys at the top of the government side of the grain industry identified problems back in 1997 that they have done nothing about since.

And every improvement requires the government to legislate changes.

This latest effort by ritz is just nothing more than political payback and will turn out like the order in council on the railways. No fines of any significance. And no thought to re-evaluating existing orders given the weather this winter.

Meanwhile this highly efficient railway hasn't dropped a car locally for over two weeks. Prior to that spot it was 5 weeks.

[fjlip]

They are off the hook soon, we will all export the 60 MMT in mini bulks.

[Braveheart]

Bucket, it's always Ritz, Ritz, Ritz. Raitt is Transport. She needs some of your lovin too.