Rail blockades are upending Canadian meat and grain supply chains, pushing storage capacity to its limit and squeezing the flow of feed and propane to farms as producers rack up millions in additional costs and lost sales.
“At some point in time, we might make this up but it’ll be way into the summer before we do,” said Hemmes. “Everybody in this business right now, they’ve had their confidence shattered and the impact of that stretches well beyond our borders. We’re going to have to work hard to win back the confidence of our buyers.”
While the ships sit empty, grain elevators in Western provinces are now at 90 per cent capacity, said Hemmes, adding that farmers are paid when they deliver their harvest to the elevators. “The trucking companies are overwhelmed too, and it’s slowing everything,” Stordy said, adding that moving pork by truck is roughly three times as expensive as by rail. “Everybody’s getting really concerned. This is getting more and more difficult.”Gary Stordy, Canadian Pork Council In addition to impeding deliveries, blockades are slowing the movement of critical inputs to agricultural supply chains.
CanadaPotstocks Enforce civil Law, use armed helicopters to recapture rail cars, then back up 100 kms, leave the rest to the others to scavenge
Pass this loss onto the Mohawks.
inkamloops I suggest they sue the protesters.
JustinTrudeau BillBlair taxpayers WBrettWilson PierrePoilievre under this Govt, economic terrorists win while law abiding hard working tax payers lose billions because the govt and cabinet have no spine. The PM was lecturing China that Canada is a land of Laws. Big liar.
Oh well, grains. We can live on weeds and gophers.
Meanwhile Trudeau wants everyone to hold hands sing folk songs and go home because he says so. Build a big prison and start filling it. Do it or the citizens of this country will do on their own. Enough is enough. Trudeau is the worst PM in history.
start starving those terrorists and their families!
As long as the soyboy drama teacher JustinTrudeau runs this country your going to have to get used to this. No confidence vote please!
$250 MILLION A MONTH 😡😡😡
We have Anarchy at the top ..!! Traitors are in the office
Budget will balance itself
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Well most of the grain is grown where he has a solid voting base so this will be fixed soon...oh wait, oh yeah Western Canada maybe not so soon with a fix.
TashaKheiriddin Shame on you Trudeau
TashaKheiriddin Trudeau could care less !
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Grain producers reel - liberals opine.....
Between this, carbon tax, a wet harvest, & crops still in the fields I’ll be surprised if farmers even bother seeding all their acres this year. Just not worth it... leave it in the bins if you can afford to
This is all on Trudeau and he doesn’t care. Where has he been on this topic the last couple days?
SheilaGunnReid Skippy's love for the west couldn't be more evident. 🤔
SheilaGunnReid Wow.
Would be interesting to poll Canadians to gauge current support for these ongoing disruptions which now include covering tracks with debris and lighting fires on tracks as well as pelt trains with rocks. It's astonishing the level of stupidity!
Take it from the federal government money transfers to the FirstNations. cdnpoli
I'm surprised that our great farmers and agricultural workers haven't heard 'thank you for your donation, we're working on it, please be patient' yet. Or some other form on non-word salad with zero plan.
That's okay. The taxpayers (settlers) will pick up the tab. As per usual.
Too bad 63 million people couldn't storm Trudeau's office just for a dialogue.
Start calling it what it is; economic terrorism.
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