Fertilizer and other things

[makar]

Western Canadian farmers paid for the ability to store almost their entire years production themselves.
Soon they will have the ability to stothe re a year's fertilizer needs if they haven't already.
One was thanks to govt mismanagement and intervention, the other, the opposite.

At the end of the cwb days to humor myself i went to a Cargill grain marketing meeting. A few comments were how the yanks do it and then a comment you have to forget selling all your grain in the same year among other things. My comment we cant market like the yanks because most of there grain is stored in terminals ours on farm. Was never invited to one again. On another note same terminal wouldn't take 150 bushels of wheat screenings from the local plant a mile away because quote " you cant buy grain willy nilly"

[fcr]

The problem we have always had in western Canada is we cannot agree on anything.If there is a need in an Asian country for something to be built or changed it just happens.No debates, protests,hearings, etc.No unions to deal with also helps and a strong work ethic.Cant see the western world ever being able to compete, as Kevin Oleary would say ,you have to move your manufacturing to China to be competitive.Now with his allegiance to trump he has to tiptoe around with his views.

[blackpowder]

Change can be so slow here that sometimes it becomes too late.

I don't go to Cargill meetings anymore either, or many others to be fair. C always wants to fold you in to their product stream.

Sometimes we should be thankful we can store so much production. We are grain companies just like them after all.
And now, storing fertilizer.

We have different geography and weather and shipping issues no doubt.
But the biggest obstacle in how we view selling our product, is history.
80-90% of our wheat hasn't been stored on farm past freeze-up since 2012.
Wheat of course being it's own thing among the grains.

[bobofthenorth]

So then the question becomes - why is there no infrastructure to import into Canada , store required needs like a petroleum reserve and bypass NOLA and the other nonsense.
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And if there is no business case for a fertilizer plant , there should be a business case for importing infrastructure.

That infrastructure already exists. Nutrien owns roughly 50% of the market. Richardson & Federated at least another 20%. They own exactly the infrastructure you are describing. Support your local independent retailer or be at the mercy of the megacorps. Your choice.