A looming stoppage of freight railway operations across Canada would disrupt North America's agricultural supply chain, snarling shipments of everything from...
CHICAGO/OTTAWA - A looming stoppage of freight rail way operations across Canada would disrupt North America 's agricultural supply chain, snarling shipments of everything from wheat to fertilizer and meat.
"The impact of a strike would be particularly severe on bulk commodity exporters in both Canada and the United States as trucking is not a viable option for many agricultural shippers," the letter said, citing large volumes and vast distances. U.S. farmers still have nearly two-thirds of the spring-wheat crop to harvest, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said on Monday. Soy, corn and canola harvests are still a few weeks away in North America.Canada's prairie elevator network would run out of storage capacity within 10 days of a stoppage, said Mark Hemmes, head of Quorum Corp, which monitors Canadian grain handling and transportation.
"Given constant trade flows and the importance of the trade relationship between the two nations, there is no good time for this to occur," Swanson said.
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