Posted on 04/18/2022 8:23:00 AM PDT by GregNH
As you may recall, ten days ago I warned that rail carriers were declaring “force majeure” and halting shipments of grain to dairy herds and other cow herds across America. In that announcement, I also warned that this was an engineered collapse of the food supply, where rail carriers were essentially being ordered to drop certain loads in order to maximize the coming wave of food scarcity and famine. Now, devastating news from CF Industries — one of the largest fertilizer producers in the world — confirms the engineered food collapse plan is being expanded to include fertilizer shipments. According to an April 14th announcement from CF Industries, Union Pacific is halting the delivery of fertilizer shipments right in the middle of peak planting season for farmers. CF Industries warns that, “railroad-mandated shipping reductions [will] result in nitrogen fertilizer shipment delays during the spring application season and that it [will] be unable to accept new rail sales involving Union Pacific for the foreseeable future.” Even more alarmingly, CF Industries warns that, “it is one of only 30 companies to face these restrictions.” This means that Union Pacific is essentially dropping fertilizer shipments and grain shipments all across America. Put another way, America’s food infrastructure is being deliberately shut down.
(Excerpt) Read more at citizens.news ...
> Are there any backup sources to this story? <
The author of the article provided no real verification of what he was saying. And I suspect that’s because he wanted to scare us, and not inform us. Take a look at the WSJ link in my post #15.
BNSF recently implemented and extreme attendance policy called Hi-viz. The union tried to strike over it but the courts denied them the ability to strike.
So while visiting a family member who lives near alliance yard, near Fort Worth, I heard about 5 trains going by with brakes on and squealing.
When an axle gets too hot, the crew has to set the car out at the next available location. This takes a lot of time.
I’m not saying the crews are slowing traffic to protest the bullshit Hi-Viz attendance policy, but I’d bet they are.
Not knocking off all the brakes is a big deal. I have never heard so many trains with squealing hand brakes.
They need to get rid of that attendance policy. Crew members are being threatened with being fired if they have to go to the Dr’s and miss a trip.
naturalnews.com? Seriously?
CNN and the National Enquirer are more truthful and accurate than nut job Mike Adams.
... traced this mess back to an article in the Wall Street Journal. Evidently Union Pacific Railroad is having transportation problems, and so is telling its customers to cut back on their rail shipments. Many companies are involved.
CF, a fertilizer company, is one of those companies. They are upset, and rightly so. But it looks like Union Pacific is just trying to sort a bottleneck out. They are not deliberately trying to starve America.
Thanks Leaning Right - this piece did have that ‘fear porn’ feel to it. Glad you’re here to speak truth to lies...
During the early years of the communist revolution in Russia food shortage was the status quo and hoarders were executed.
It’s amazing how any hiccup in anything now is all blamed on the deep state and not directly on the administration who controls regulations. Much easier to generate fear when the enemy is some shady unknown.
Covid has taught many bloggers that fear generates clicks.
Keystone cancellation is really starting to mater.
I saw this yesterday and looked into a little more and as usual there is more to the story:
https://www.grainnet.com/article/269544/fertilizer-company-complains-about-railroad-shipment-limits
Supply chain issues not a conspiracy.
I have actually heard the same, that crews are purposely slowing traffic to protest something, but I didn’t know what it was.
Of course, this has nothing to do with the UP or the CN or CPRS.
The CN has been screwed up ever since the BC floods last November. The UP actually seems to be the best at supplying cars to the mills right now. So, I am not sure what this fertilizer company is talking about.
Build back better comply or die.
Big time. To the point where UP management in general needs three hands to find their azz. It is part of why they can't run trains very well anymore even if the boots on the ground do things right. Lots of people unqualified for the job but they check the right HR boxes.
Oh, and by the way... it is now hip for Class 1 railroads to have female (biological, AFAIK) CEOs... simply because they are female.
In one retail store I worked in you were expected to find a co-worker yourself to fill in.
The situation seems to be one subject to collective bargaining.
Looks more like a money grab from Union Pacific.
reduce the volume of private cars on its railroad effective immediately
And it’s not just grain and fertilizer being affected. A trade association of ethanol producers recently complained that manifest and unit transportation delays of between 2 and 12 days have been suffered, while West Virginia coal producers have complained there aren’t enough rail cars to ship thermal or metallurgical coal at all.
BNSF, like Union Pacific, emphasized a major attributing cause to its service disruptions as being staffing shortages.
The firm’s reply to the STB stated that at the beginning of 2021, BNSF had almost 3,000 train, yard, and engine staff on furlough, but has since reduced that number to 450.
November of 2021 reporting by Freight Waves revealed that both BNSF and Union Pacific were in a fight with major labor unions over the implementation of a September Joe Biden Executive Order mandating COVID-19 vaccination for all employees.
By December, both companies had suspended the edicts after the Biden administration ran into resistance at the federal court level.
The Federal Railroad Administration lists Union Pacific and BNSF as two of the top seven Class 1 freight railroads in the nation.
However, the greater cause elucidated by the vaccine mandate wars may simply be ongoing and overarching disputes between the unions and their employers.
In January, a District Court judge prevented Union Pacific employees from striking, picketing, or conducting a “sickout” over complaints arising from the company’s COVID measures.
In late March, BNSF’s unions sought to pursue arbitration after opposing a recently implemented “Hi Viz” (high visibility) attendance policy that deploys a progressive discipline schema in response to various tiers of absences, such as weekends, holidays, or missed calls.
https://www.visiontimes.com/2022/04/16/us-rail-carriers-cut-fertilizer-shipments-union-wars.html
I believe working for the railroad is considered to be a “good” job.
Especially for people without a college degree.
So is their plan?
Unable to use COVID as nobody fears its. The left have to manufacture something else to trigger another does of MASS FORMARTION PSYCHOSIS in the general public.
Is food shortage & famine their plan.
Will that make Preppers the smartest people on the planet?
Warren Buffet and others have major interest in the rails, but who would have any actual AUTHORITY to enforce such an order?
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