We do have plans and we meet the demand every year in grain, except in exceptional circumstances like this year. It's not perfect. People would like us to surge even more in the fall and park cars in the summer. We have to find the right balance. In terms of moving grain, the average crop is 58 million tonnes and the normal range of crops is anywhere from 52 to 65 million tonnes. We have the assets and the capability to move that.
Now, that bar will move up. Next year, Agriculture Canada is calling for 62 million to 63 million tonnes as a crop. That's the trend line. We will be reserving assets and be in a position to handle that. We will build our capability, as the trade grows, with a capability to move up or down.
What we are unable to promise, unless we were all sitting down and deciding the economic cost of being prepared to do that, is to be able to move a 100-year crop on short notice. That is unrealistic as an expectation, and the cost to do that is prohibitive. No one would build a business to be able to handle that. When you have such a situation with huge excess tonnage to move, that's when collaboration is absolutely essential. That's when getting the right facts, sitting down around the table, making sure we sweat the assets from end to end, is the only strategy that I know of.
I've been calling for that since the fall. Unfortunately, through the winter, when things got a bit out of sync, there was an awful lot of piling on the railroads, and there have been no conversations that I've been able to attend to provide the facts that I'm presenting today. It's unfortunate that I am having a chance to do that when you've already decided that heavy-handed regulation is the solution.