(Source: Forum News Service, April 15, 2014)
FARGO, N.D. — The slow rail service threatening the livelihood of farmers in the Upper Midwest has gotten better in recent weeks, but at the Forest River Bean Co., the railcars ordered from BNSF or Canadian Pacific are still two to three months behind, said the company president. Brian Schanilec, a fifth-generation farmer, called the crisis the worst that his family has ever faced, worse even than the 1930s.
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