From a farm perspective, I echo their comments in terms of how damaging it would have been. A strike at that time, when we are basically 50,000 cars behind, which is essentially more than a month at the best capacity at harvest period, would be a problem because I think that every day we lose now moving grain just results in more backlogs, more penalities, and more grain that is just going to end up sitting in the ground and being held over. I think it would exacerbate the issues that way, and also there are some cashflow constraints, I would say, happening on farms in some cases, especially when you see these contracts that are staying out longer and not being delivered on during the contracted period. I would echo their comments that any delay would have been very problematic.
On February 10th, 2014. See this statement in context.