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BNSF Agricultural Products - Podcasts
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to our most recent Podcast - October 13, 2009
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Kevin Kaufman, BNSF's group vice president, Agricultural Products, comments on weather and the wet pattern foreseen, crop outlook, export demand, shuttles and non-shuttle service, Townhall meetings in MT, planned visit to ND and equipment supply.
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Past Ag Products archive Prodcasts are listed below.
10/13/09
3.3 Min.
3.2 MB |
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Kevin Kaufman, BNSF's group vice president, Agricultural Products, comments on weather and the wet pattern foreseen, crop outlook, export demand, shuttles and non-shuttle service, Townhall meetings in MT, planned visit to ND and equipment supply. |
09/22/09
2.4 Min.
2.3 MB |
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Kevin Kaufman, BNSF's group vice president, Agricultural Products, comments on weather conditions, crop protein and yield expectations, marketing demand, and how car supply is good and velocity and service is excellent. Kevin express hopes to see many of you at the Fort Benton MT, Producer Listening Session on September 28th. |
09/09/09
2.5 Min.
2.6 MB |
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Kevin Kaufman, BNSF's group vice president, Agricultural Products, comments on an article about BNSF transportation rate practices regarding our wheat rate changes for the states of ND and MT for August 2009 and January of 2010. |
09/01/09
2.2 Min.
2.2 MB |
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Kevin Kaufman, BNSF's group vice president, Agricultural Products, comments on the large 2009 maintenance work which is scheduled to finish before harvest, equipment fleet quality, market outlook, yields in ND and MT, BNSF Foundation support for Sawfly research, exports and shuttle demand. |
08/18/09
3.4 Min.
2.9 MB |
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Kevin Kaufman, BNSF's group vice president, Agricultural Products, comments on his recent trip to ND, formation to a new ND ag rail business council, crop and demand outlook, secondary freight market, car orders, rail service and velocity, and how BNSF has launched our own new text/email HarvestUpdate service. |
07/30/09
4.3 Min.
4.2MB |
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Kevin Kaufman, BNSF's group vice president, Agricultural Products, comments on the 2009 harvest, world supply and demand, the equipment picture we are currently experiencing and our plans to insure best of class service for the balance of the harvest. |
01/09/09
5 Min.
5.2MB |
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Kevin Kaufman, BNSF's group vice president, Agricultural Products, comments on winter weather conditions in the PNW impacting train operations and safety, market issues related to storage quality, southern hemisphere crops, live stock issues, equipment demand and velocity, and hoping to see everyone at the NDGDA coming up in mid Jan. |
12/18/08
5 Min.
4.2MB |
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Kevin Kaufman, BNSF's group vice president, Agricultural Products, comments on winter weather conditions impacting train operations and safety, to expect lower velocity and turns times, attending Grain Dealers Association Convention in Fargo, ND, stabilizing markets and ocean freight; seeing considerable farmer movement, improving domestic demand, and general shuttle news. For future podcast content, we are continually requesting feedback via email. |
12/09/08
5 min.
4.7MB |
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Kevin Kaufman, BNSF's group vice president, Agricultural Products, comments on the BNSF service highlights and achievements of 2008, attending Producer’s Conference in Great Falls MT; the 2008 market place has been strained with changes in world prices, financing and economies. The outlook for 2009 and beyond is bright. We continually seek your feedback. |
10/30/08
6 min.
6.0MB |
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Kevin Kaufman, BNSF's group vice president, Agricultural Products, comments on the unusually low ocean freight, delayed corn harvest, foreign buyers facing credit issues, equipment velocity improves, current on car orders, customer feedback to make shuttle incentives favorable to the market, and Paul Coppin’s advice in face of volatile markets. |
08/13/08
7:15 min.
7.0MB |
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Kevin Kaufman, BNSF's group vice president, Agricultural Products, comments on harvest progress in the Northern Plains, placing cars in preparation of harvest, corn crop progress, ocean freight, Gulf demand, encouraging you to share your information on transportation demand, and rebasing -, moving a portion of the fuel surcharges into freight rates. |
07/30/08
4:24 min.
4.0MB |
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Kevin Kaufman, BNSF's group vice president, Agricultural Products, comments on improved velocity following the Midwest flooding, PNW and Gulf pipeline, wheat harvest progress and yields, car supply/demand. |
07/16/08
7:50 min.
7.0MB |
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Kevin Kaufman, BNSF's group vice president, Agricultural Products, comments on BNSF flood works hard work, PNW and Gulf pipeline, market demand, wheat harvest progress, corn progress, car velocity, shuttles and COT sales, trips per month, service and demand statistics. |
07/01/08
7:55 min.
7.2MB |
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Kevin Kaufman, BNSF's group vice president, Agricultural Products, comments flooding effects on Ag Products franchise, PNW and Gulf pipeline, market demand, wheat harvest progress, corn progress, car velocity, trips per month, service and demand statistics. |
06/12/08
6 min.
6MB |
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Kevin Kaufman, BNSF's group vice president, Agricultural Products, comments on wheat harvest update in OK & KS, weather impact, orders, storage for northern wheat harvest, and issues concerning car velocity, trips per month, service and demand statistics.
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06/05/08
8 min.
8MB |
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Kevin Kaufman, BNSF's group vice president, Agricultural Products, comments on harvest progress in Texas and Oklahoma, issues concerning ‘want dates’ heat affecting lines and train sizes, car velocity, PNW and Gulf pipeline situation, crop size, car supply. |
06/05/08
6 min.
6MB |
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This weeks Special Guest is Mike Shircliff, AVP of Locomotive Utilization. Mike talks about how BNSF manages the locomotive fleet, how they adjust the number of locomotives to meet the Ag Products demand. Mr. Shircliff emphases how important planning is and how customer demand forecasts are to BNSF locomotive planning. |
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