CAMROSE, Alta. (Staff) – One of Alberta’s main farm organizations has decided to stick with the farm coalition looking at buying the fleet of government hopper cars.
Wild Rose Agricultural Producers decided to stay in the prairie farm rail coalition during its recent summer meeting in northern Alberta, said president Ron Leonhardt.
Originally, a group of 10 farm organizations from across political boundaries joined together to look at buying the federal government’s 13,000 rail cars. Since then the Western Canadian Wheat Growers and the Western Producer Car Group have pulled out.
Leonhardt said they feel producers will end up footing the bill for repairs and upkeep of the cars no matter who buys them so they might as well own the cars.
“I know one or two major groups who’ve decided to pull out, but we’ve decided to stay,” he said.
“If we’re going to be paying for them we might as well own them.”
