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Around Dec 15 this ship loaded about 30,000 tons of wheat @ Duluth MN, Grain Terminal, then headed across Lake Superior. This grain may have been Canadian or U S produced wheat. This ship is bound for Tunisia as I understand. Tonight (4 January) this ship has made it to about 100 miles west of the Straits of Gilbraltor "(south of Portugal). There was likely some yesterday's tractors and today's tractors used to plant and harvest this wheat in 2020. It's good to see trade opening up and wheat at healthy prices of 6.48 bushel going to folks who need it or can't grow it in their own country.

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2014 and and 2015 were the highest prices for calves I ever got and also the highest price for fuel I’ve ever paid 3.75 for farm fuel
 
I was paying a lot closer to 5.00 a gallon here, would have Gladly rung a certain neck over that deal, i was also getting under 2 bucks a bushel for wheat then,,
 
I don't grow much wheat, just enough for straw, but the bean market has exploded! they are up almost .30 this morning to 13.47 at the local elevator.
 

That's probably 1 day to cross the atlantic and 19 days to clear Canadian customs.

Don't know if I should cry over 13 buck soybeans or not. Couple months ago the price was $10.10. I read about the chance that it could go over 13 bux but didn't believe it. I sold ours at 10.10. Talked to someone else when I sold and they were crying cause they had theirs locked in with futures at less than that. Bet they are really crying now. Heard it was Brazil, a bean exporter, who was buying up the beans more than the country you dig a hole through the center of the earth to get to. I'm wondering if Brazil is buying them to sell to the other country.
 
Funny, Smithsonian channel on Dish just ran a show about a bulk carrier, empty, had about 5 of those cranes for a size comparison, coming from somewhere in Europe (empty) over to Canada to pick up something like 200,000 tons of grain. Seems the entrance from the East into the waterway they were to use....don't think it was the St. Lawrence seaway, was a dangerous spot due to conflicting currents and storms and she broke in half...said bulk carriers were prone to do that and explained what the hull goes through in a ship of the sort, especially when empty....like a cork bobbing on the ocean.

I do know that some ships fill their tanks/holds with seawater for ballast to aid in preventing such from happening. Hmmmm....seems like a mess transitioning from salt water to the intended cargo!!!!!!
 
Yeah! Did they ever resolve the cause.....I don't doubt that the "Lakes" experience "Rogue Waves" just like the oceans due to their size.
 
There is an inner and outer hull. The ballast water is between them not in the cargo hold. So if all goes well there is no mess to clean up.
 
I agree. I sold off my herd in Feb. 2014 and got $3250 for a 3 year old "grade" Brangus Bull, not to mention great prices for the rest of the stock. The bull bought me a Generac household generator plus and that was one of the best purchases I ever made.....peace of mind.
 
There was some mean high waves that nite the Edmund went down, another ship was about 19 miles behind them! The Edmund was seriously overloaded the Captain famous words were "it will take it" !
 
A group of empty barges headed north on the Mississippi to load grain.
Each one of those barges can hold 1500 tons or 52,500 bushels of corn on soybeans.
It takes about 3 gallons per mile to move each barge when loaded.
So a 15 barge tow (maximum on upper mississippi) uses 45 gallons per mile while moving 22,500 tons of grain.
A train uses about 2.5 times that to move the same amount of grain.



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A good estimate is 7 days from Duluth, MN to Montreal. Many bulk carriers refuel @ Montreal before setting out across the Atlantic.
 
Ships from all over the world come to get the grain harvested in the mid-west of the US & Canada. The big terminals are in Duluth, MN, or Thunder Bay, ON. Both on Lake Superior. The locks in the Welland Canal (gets ya around Niagara Falls) are set to close for the season on January 8, 2021. The locks in Sault Ste Marie will close on January 15 for the winter. Anybody upstream of these locks by those dates will stay there for the winter.

Bulk ships have several cargo holds to carry anything from grain, coal, ore, salt, stone. Basically any dry material that can be poured & conveyed. Depending on their next cargo, their holds are cleaned to varying degrees. There are ballast tanks, so that when they are empty, water can be pumped in to keep the boat down in the water. When a boat rides high in the water, they are greater impacted by rough water, and wind. These tanks are independent of the cargo holds.

The Great Lakes sport some seriously large ships. There are 105' wide by 1000' long ships that can haul 70,000 tons of ore. A lot of the US economy depends on the materials that move back & forth on the Great Lakes.
 
I think there's only one domestic mode of shipment that beats shipping/barge in terms of energy efficiency, and that is pipeline. Of course pipelines come with their obvious limitations and problems. I've wondered if some clever engineer ever looked into ways to utilize the pipeline network for moving non-traditional goods such as mail or parcels by pipeline. You could stick them in a fluid-proof bag and adjust the buoyancy with air so they'd float. Then you'd have to figure out how to get the bags past the pumping stations. The closest thing I know of to this is Elon Musk's plan to have a pneumatic tube (Hyperloop) that carried people in California,
 
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