Agriculture committee  It timed out, actually, quite perfectly for us. The storm rolled in at a time when we actually had quite a few cars in storage in a Nanaimo yard. We thought maybe rail service would be back online in two or three weeks. The hard part was that the grains we didn't have, which we s

Agriculture committee  Thank you. We take weekly or daily phone calls regarding price increases, and most of the recent price increases have been based on commodity pricing. We have been very careful, when purchasing our ingredients coming in, that we do not go too long on contracts, just in case ther

Agriculture committee  Top Shelf Feeds is a huge advocate of bringing rail back. If we can get someone at the federal level to communicate to the province that we need to have the rail back to Duncan, I think that is going to reduce the costs to the end-user, and I think that's what we're going to be f

Agriculture committee  Thank you very much for that question. Yes, basically our main costs right now are the infrastructure set up for a transload facility that is 45 minutes away from the mill. Trucking comes at a heavy cost. We also get hit with demurrage bills for railcars that sit on the island,

Agriculture committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair and committee, for giving us the opportunity to speak today. My name is Dennis Comeau. I am the general manager of Top Shelf Feeds. We are the last agricultural feed manufacturer on Vancouver Island. For a basic understanding of who we are and how we play a