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  • farming101
    Senior Member
    • Mar 2011
    • 3953

    Churchill terminal closing

    [URL="http://www.producer.com/2016/07/grain-to-stop-moving-through-churchill/"]http://www.producer.com/2016/07/grain-to-stop-moving-through-churchill/[/URL]
  • parsley
    Senior Member
    • Oct 2000
    • 10986

    #2
    http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/port-of-churchill-closes-30-people-given-layoff-notices-388198572.html

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    • farmaholic
      Senior Member
      • Sep 2010
      • 17471

      #3
      Why would Shippers want to ship through there? Its not "theirs".

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      • parsley
        Senior Member
        • Oct 2000
        • 10986

        #4
        What a difference a trainload of grain makes for farmers. For next year.

        The Saudis' CWB seems alert enough.

        Graincars are sent back down the railroad it was already hauled up on. No problem.

        Farmers scratch their heads.

        Mute Merv is yet unfound, but will most likely be heard joyously singing, "I once was lost but now am found." No problem.

        The port is now financially screwed and the selling-price of the port will drop to a once in a blue-moon price.

        Moon. Yes, well. The lunar-moon men noticed.

        Think Saudis will partner with taxpayer-funded Northern natives to buy the port? No protests. Trudeau will be presented with new moccasins

        Farmers will keep combining.

        Will Saudis also buy an additional interest in the CWB? wlWith Ritz' 2016 neverending blessings?

        Will Saudis also buy the railroad from Winnipeg to Churchill? And high-five?

        Will Saudis build more mosques in the North; aka theological training centres? Complete with electronic equipment?

        Will Trudeau train northerners to train Northerners to be Customs agents?

        Will streams of entrants begin to arrive through Churchill and the 'ports arrival' stats rise?

        After Canadian farmers are presented with a plaque by the CWB for being business-minded, they buy more fertilizer.

        The northern port of Churchill will become renowned as the leading strategic military and intelligence port in the world. Just not for Canadians.

        Will our Western politicians get national awards for their conversational French lessons, whilst Northern politicians get national awards for conversational Arabic lessons, both yearly, in Churchill Manitoba?

        Port. Say the word and remember it.

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        • MBgrower
          Senior Member
          • Sep 2012
          • 1565

          #5
          The russians or chinese should buy and send fertilezer back to the prairies. Build a few collection sites on the praires and distribute from those points.

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          • rockpile
            Senior Member
            • Oct 2000
            • 879

            #6
            Durka, Durka!

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            • BreadWinner
              Senior Member
              • Jan 2008
              • 1493

              #7
              Im afraid I will be one of last farmers to tour this great giant in the north. Last fall I was there as the last vessel pulled away. Without a company in western Canada with a stake in the port it will never ship another bushel. It is 1920s technology every chute and distributor has a rope and a man attached. It takes 70 guys to run this big old tank. The only reason it ran the past ten years is because it was heavily subsidized and not because it was needed. Dont worry Im sure the CWB big wigs even got a bonus for every bushel that went out the Hudsons Bay. all the big grain corps just finished expanding their ports so why would they ship north. With Ocean freights at all time lows the savings of shipping north would not be noticable.

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              • parsley
                Senior Member
                • Oct 2000
                • 10986

                #8
                Unless oil and grain were a team.

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                • stonepicker
                  Senior Member
                  • Dec 2011
                  • 1217

                  #9
                  Poor track, poor location, poor facility. It was never feasible, too bad.

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                  • tweety
                    Senior Member
                    • Nov 2014
                    • 3059

                    #10
                    Its pretty obvious what happens to a business when interim payments that should have gone to farmers no longer fund it.

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