Where did all the "bumper" crop experts go all of a sudden?????????????

[bucket]

Did you know its cheaper to use trucks from swift current to Lethbridge than shuttle a 50 car unit train of canola to the crusher?

How phucked is that...

[Hamloc]

Article in the Western Producer: “Sask. canola estimate feels the heat.” This article talks about the Saskatchewan government having a much lower canola yield estimate than Statscan and has a couple of quotes from Neil Townsend, I try to be open minded but this guy takes the cake!

[bucket]

Article in the Western Producer: “Sask. canola estimate feels the heat.” This article talks about the Saskatchewan government having a much lower canola yield estimate than Statscan and has a couple of quotes from Neil Townsend, I try to be open minded but this guy takes the cake!

Notice anything familiar about Townsend and Burnett?.....yup it looks like they eat a lot of cake...they aint walking any fields ...they be puddles pretty quick....they are paper people....roid growers....

[FarmJunkie]

Could u imagine Neil walking! Especially carrying that head around! Guys like him have to go. The are no experts on farming and how to get it done.

[furrowtickler]

Townsend ...


Sometimes pictures do say a 1000 words.

[wmoebis]

Did you know its cheaper to use trucks from swift current to Lethbridge than shuttle a 50 car unit train of canola to the crusher?

How phucked is that...

Is that for producer or grain company? Don't grain companies have negotiated prices with rail companies?

[bucket]

Is that for producer or grain company? Don't grain companies have negotiated prices with rail companies?

I don't think the trucker is making much....

[wmoebis]

I don't think the trucker is making much....

Wonder what the actual average cost to pull a tonne of grain by rail is? Someone from one of the shortlines should know. What is the average cost by superB?

[Hamloc]

Notice anything familiar about Townsend and Burnett?.....yup it looks like they eat a lot of cake...they aint walking any fields ...they be puddles pretty quick....they are paper people....roid growers....

Actually the more interesting commonality Townsend and Burnett is that they are both former employees of the Canadian Wheat Board. In the article Neil Townsend refuses to back down from his 41 bushel per acre yield prediction. He says there is no way Saskatchewan gov. can be right, the math wouldn’t work, that would mean $14 canola. I can’t believe people would hire this guy for marketing advice!

[bucket]

Wonder what the actual average cost to pull a tonne of grain by rail is? Someone from one of the shortlines should know. What is the average cost by superB?

Fuel wise per tonne ...one would think rail would be lower....but if the crusher at lethbridge needs canola....the rail would be too slow even though there are few stops. ..50 cars would be 100 trucks....this system we have is insane.