VIEW Meal Train Ticket Truckers try to take the shortest route between two points, but railroads settle for nonstop unit-train runs for peak efficiency. Rail lines offer favorable freight rates so CHS and other companies will choose unit trains to carry commodities coast to coast. CHS owns 100 railcars that haul soy meal at a fraction of the cost of trucking the same amount — about 100 tons per car. The CHS soybean crushing plant at Fairmont, Minn., uses Union Pacific Railroad to ship oil-extracted meal to destinations along the West Coast and as far away as Mexico. “It’s more economical to make meal where the beans are grown and ship the meal, than to ship beans and make the meal at the other end,” says Tom Malecha, CHS vice president, meal sales. — Lisa Graham-Peterson 16 July/August 2009 WWW.CHSINC.COM
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