The movement of grain, both Canadian Wheat Board varieties and non-board grain, has been moving well from the southeast area of Saskatchewan, with regular supplies of rail cars to most area facilities.

Unlike recent years where the larger terminals received better car supplies than country elevators, facilities of all sizes have been receiving grain cars, in a survey around the Weyburn district.

At Weyburn Inland Terminal, the supply of rail cars has been "reasonably good," said Sandy McCormick, manager of grain transportation.

"They've opened up quite a bit. We could use another call for No. 1 durum, and No. 2 durum has been slow, but that might pick up in January. It's been fairly steady," he said.

Compared to past years, the supply of cars to the Agricore United elevator in Francis (formerly UGG) has been good this fall, said facility manager Blaine Kwochka, noting he was to get five cars on Tuesday.

"For space, we're doing pretty good. It's been a good run between getting trains and trucks. We're much better off than we were last year," he said, adding that durum has been very slow moving up until now. The elevator has been moving mostly malt barley and non-board grains, like flax.

Asked if farmers have been wanting to get grain moved at this time of year, Kwochka replied, "Everybody's waiting for better prices for flax and canola, so guys aren't too anxious to move grain right now."

The Paterson elevator in Yellow Grass has likewise received a healthy supply of grain cars this year, said manager Alan Krausher, adding this has been the best fall for moving grain in the last three years.

"It's largely due to the fact so many areas were dry and didn't have much grain to move," he said, adding his facility has been moving mostly hard wheat and malt barley.

"Hard wheat moves as fast as I can bring it in, whether through rail or by truck transfers to facilities within the company," said Krausher, adding about one-third of his grain goes out by truck.

The non-board grains he has been moving include feed wheat, feed barley, oats, mustard, peas and canaryseed, but he has also been moving quite a bit of CWB grains as well.

"Last year I moved more non-board than board grain, but this year it's exactly the opposite," he said, noting calls for durum have just come out and this will start to move in the near future.

The fall as a whole has been really good, he added, with steady movement of grain since August with the exception of about three weeks in September. He noted that as of Nov. 20, he had bought as much grain as he moved all of last year - "and last year I had a really good year."

The supply of rail cars for Fill-More Seeds five grain-handling facilities has been regular, with 30-car trains coming every two weeks, said president Blair Stewart.

Their elevators were plugged on Monday, but he noted a 30-car train was due in Tuesday to take most of that grain. Fill-More has four grain elevators in Creelman, Osage and Fillmore, along with their original seed processing plant in Fillmore.

They have been moving non-board grains like oats, barley, feed wheat, peas, feed peas and flax. For CWB grains, so far they've mostly been moving spring wheat, although they will start moving durum in the near future.

"As we've been emptying, it's not long before we're full again," said Stewart.