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Mbratrud

Does the new facility have the ability to load containers ?


It seems before the 2008 meltdown.... bulk freight had got expensive enough to use containers.

[mbratrud]

Mbratrud

Does the new facility have the ability to load containers ?


It seems before the 2008 meltdown.... bulk freight had got expensive enough to use containers.

If this can go ahead, commercial partners would have a lot of say in the facilty. But definatly have had conversations around container loading. CP fairly protective of GTH infrastructure

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Mbratrud

Unless you meant something else you said ....."If this can go ahead, commercial partners would have a lot of say in the facilty."


Can you sell this to producers when it sounds like you are building a turnkey facility for one of the commercials using producers money.


The more I think about this ....the right place to do this project would be at a port.....for all the smaller players looking for a throughput ....producer cars and smaller companies that don't have the resources at export....

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Mbratrud

Unless you meant something else you said ....."If this can go ahead, commercial partners would have a lot of say in the facilty."


Can you sell this to producers when it sounds like you are building a turnkey facility for one of the commercials using producers money.


The more I think about this ....the right place to do this project would be at a port.....for all the smaller players looking for a throughput ....producer cars and smaller companies that don't have the resources at export....

You have a point Bucket. Producer cars are becoming thing of past due to no place to unload. Right to load producer car is gone.

[bucket]

Instead of kissing the industry's ass and calling it something for farmers ....why not actually do something that can bypass the commercials....thereby setting up a system that uses markets not target price orders.

[mbratrud]

Instead of kissing the industry's ass and calling it something for farmers ....why not actually do something that can bypass the commercials....thereby setting up a system that uses markets not target price orders.

Commercial can mean a lot of things. Grain company, grain trader, Miller, crusher.. The proposed grain facilty portion of Comtrax will have input from its "customers" which will be buyers of Grains, oilseeds and Pulses. The plan is to bring New buyers to the Market place while maintaining control of the services provided to farmers. We are open to ideas. Contact me I'd be happy to discuss any ideas you have. We just want to start building farmer investment in an industry that has gotten out of touch.

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Mbratrud

I asked about bringing a warehouse to store farmers product in a centralized location that allows bagged or bulk product to be offered to end users in another thread .....you could become the alibaba of farm products.....sort of like a giant global farmers market....

Peas....lentils....mustards. ...chickpeas....and other specialty crops that could be sourced from one bonded warehouse in western Canada. ....


But I still think.... after pondering it....the west coast port idea would service smaller players in western Canada better ....most of the product will be exported.

Sourcing isn't the bottleneck ....having a place to put it on ships could be...

And having a port position to import fertilizer will be viable after Trudeau shitcans fertilizer production in western Canada. ...I guess he would rather see flares than fertilizer plants....I digress.