Dilemma Farmers worry a snarled railroad system will delay grain shipments; experts don’t see quick fi xes. By Greg Lamp B ill Schuster and his son Scott are darn glad they added 150,000 bushels of grain storage to their Phillips, Neb., operation last year. They had no idea then how valuable that extra on-farm capacity would be. With railcar backlogs from the booming Bakken oil fi elds of North Dakota to the continuous coal trains rumbling through Nebraska, grain is getting stuck in the heartland. It’s not moving to the West Coast and on to export destinations at the speed and with the reliability farmers and elevators have come to expect. And the logjam could be around longer than anyone wants to admit. “Grain trains don’t show up when scheduled and we’re having to ship by truck, which is expensive and slow,” says Schuster, who also chairs the board of directors at Aurora Cooperative, which has > Your CHS Connection 7