RascalRiley Loc: Somewhere south of Detroit

I am surprised you do not know the actual reason the company can not ship it’s fertilizer.

I am not surprised you created BS to cover your ignorance of the actual reason.

debeda

I am not ignorant, nor am I uninformed. I read it this morning and don't remember the specifics. If you're so hot to know, look it up. For someone who seldom has ANY real information you're mighty quick to name-call

RascalRiley Loc: Somewhere south of Detroit

I read about a week ago it a trade article.

As for name calling, reading the right wing press and those on OPP is having a bad influence on me. Derogatory adjective galore.

debeda

IF you already read about it why would you call me an ignorant BSer. Puhlease

RascalRiley Loc: Somewhere south of Detroit

The info is not BS. This is.

Something is waaay funky (or Bribem promised it to his Chinese goombahs for the thousands of acres of farmland they own in the US).

debeda

Actually, that supposition is not BS to me. It has become clear to most that this current administration is purposefully undermining and degrading the United State's interests domestically and around the world. There is no other logical conclusion to be reached, other than they are all incompetent morons. Which I don't believe to be true. I DO believe that Biden is deeply compromised by foreign powers, and also not mentally all there to boot.

RascalRiley Loc: Somewhere south of Detroit

Biden has no control over how a private rail road conducts it’s business.

Granted, the reason this company needs are not being accommodated sounds contrived but I have not found a link to Biden.

debeda

America 1 Loc: South Miami

It seems you are creating BS as usual.
The number of cars on the railroad has grown over the past 60 days and in the week ending April 8 topped 300,000 for the first time since 2018, when UP was in the midst of an operational funk that lasted more than a year.

DEERFIELD, Ill. — Union Pacific’s plan to begin metering traffic as of today will curtail fertilizer shipments and put crops at risk, a major fertilizer producer says.
“The timing of this action by Union Pacific could not come at a worse time for farmers,” CF Industries CEO Tony Will said in a statement on Thursday. “Not only will fertilizer be delayed by these shipping restrictions, but additional fertilizer needed to complete spring applications may be unable to reach farmers at all. By placing this arbitrary restriction on just a handful of shippers, Union Pacific is jeopardizing farmers’ harvests and increasing the cost of food for consumers.”

CF Industries informed its customers located on UP that railroad-mandated shipping reductions would result in nitrogen fertilizer shipment delays during the spring application season. The company also informed customers that it would be unable to accept new rail sales involving UP for the foreseeable future.
UP on April 8 told CF Industries that it would have to reduce its shipments by nearly 20% as part of the railroad’s plan to reduce congestion in the midst of crew and locomotive shortages.
CF Industries said it will ask the Surface Transportation Board to intervene so that fertilizer shipments are prioritized.
“CF Industries’ North American manufacturing network continues to produce at a high rate to meet the needs of customers, farmers, and consumers,” Will said. “We urge the federal government to take action to remove these Union Pacific rail shipment restrictions to ensure this vital fertilizer will be able to reach U.S. farmers when and where they need it.”

The fertilizer company said it was one of only 30 shippers to face restrictions designed to unclog the UP network. CF Industries ships to customers via Union Pacific rail lines primarily from its Donaldsonville Complex in Louisiana and its Port Neal Complex in Iowa. The rail lines serve key agricultural areas such as Iowa, Illinois, Kansas, Nebraska, Texas, and California.

Affected products include nitrogen fertilizers such as urea and urea ammonium nitrate, as well as diesel exhaust fluid, an emissions control product required for diesel trucks. CF Industries is the largest producer of all three products in North America, and its Donaldsonville Complex is the largest single production facility for the products in North America.

CF Industries says crop yields will be lower this year if farmers are unable to secure all the nitrogen fertilizer that they need. This will likely extend the timeline to replenish global grains stocks and contribute to higher food prices, the company contends.

UP sent an email to customers earlier this month outlining the railroad’s goal of removing 15,000 private cars from current inventory. UP is pulling nearly 3% of railroad-owned cars from the system. The railroad has said it will work with customers to avoid plant shutdowns and other potential negative impacts.

“Union Pacific is committed to proactively supporting our customers, and we are working with them to address the impact of several disruptive events,” spokeswoman Kristen South says. The railroad is taking several steps to address “national supply chain issues,” including adding 100 locomotives to the active fleet, training 450 new employees with more scheduled to graduate from conductor training this summer, and relocating 80 crew members to high-demand areas.

UP also says it’s “partnering with customers to begin a metered approach in the coming days. This allows us to continue serving all customers while simultaneously working through a backlog of cars, restoring our ability to process volume – an approach we successfully applied last year with West Coast intermodal traffic.”

Other shippers have complained about the restrictions, but none publicly like CF Industries.

The number of cars on the railroad has grown over the past 60 days and in the week ending April 8 topped 300,000 for the first time since 2018, when UP was in the midst of an operational funk that lasted more than a year. The railroad is short of crew and power and says it’s hiring aggressively while pulling locomotives out of storage.
When a railroad’s average train speed drops and terminal dwell increases, transit times increase and service becomes more erratic. Shippers typically add cars to their fleets as rail service slows, which tends to exacerbate congestion and delays.

The STB has ordered executives from UP, BNSF Railway, CSX Transportation, and Norfolk Southern to appear at a hearing on service issues scheduled for April 26 and 27 [see “Federal regulators hold hearings …,” Trains News Wire, April 7, 2022]. Board Chairman Martin J. Oberman has blamed the service problems on job cuts related to Precision Scheduled Railroading and the industry’s focus on reducing operating ratios.
https://www.trains.com/trn/news-reviews/news-wire/fertilizer-producer-says-up-shipment-restrictions-could-threaten-crops/

lindajoy Loc: right here with you....

Fact is factious factors are favored fracturing factors for fact based fake fact checkers…

lindajoy Loc: right here with you....

WTH biden can mandate whatever he wants and or EO anything too just like he did when he took office and signed all those EO’s already prepared for his signature not knowing what they even were ..and again its putins fault~~ What BS!!!!!

From that very first day, Joe Biden and his handlers (Obama) have been meticulously deconstructing America’s food and energy infrastructure, causing shortages and price inflation. Yet as prices and scarcity both continue to worsen, Jen Psaki says it’s all “Putin’s fault” as a convenient cover story.

The truth is that fake president Joe Biden is trying to plunge America into mass starvation, food riots and chaos. The shutting down of energy, food and fertilizer transportation is just one small part of this nefarious plan.

CF Industries president Tony Will reveals how fertilizer is being selectively targeted:

“The timing of this action by Union Pacific could not come at a worse time for farmers,” said Tony Will, president and chief executive officer, CF Industries Holdings, Inc. “Not only will fertilizer be delayed by these shipping restrictions, but additional fertilizer needed to complete spring applications may be unable to reach farmers at all. By placing this arbitrary restriction on just a handful of shippers, Union Pacific is jeopardizing farmers’ harvests and increasing the cost of food for consumers.”

https://www.newswars.com/emergency-alert-after-rail-carriers-cancel-grain-shipments-cf-industries-warns-fertilizer-rail-shipments-now-being-halted-during-spring-planting/

Mikeyavelli

Just read a lefty article on how this new black LTGBABCDFG press secretary Pierre is going to shape public perception for Biden. Seems that they think everything is going very well and we stooopeedos can't see the glorious accomplishments of the Biden Administration.
Pisses me off.

TexaCan Loc: Homeward Bound!

Now say that three times really really fast............

Mikeyavelli

Fact is factious factors are favored fracturing factors for fact based fake fact checkers…

Now that there is good, lindajoy!😃

debeda

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