UPRR InsideTrack, 2/28/24
Union Pacific Sows the Seeds for 2024 after Scoring Successful Harvest
As a critical link in the world’s agricultural supply chain, Union Pacific invests considerable time and resources preparing for the fall harvest. U.S. corn and wheat stocks are significantly larger than a year ago, and Union Pacific is leveraging lessons learned from the 2023 harvest when it moved grain cars faster, farther, and more efficiently.
“We focused on having resources at the ready: locomotives, rail cars and train crews,” said Nick Smith, general director – Unit Train Service Solution. “We also improved our harvest planning process by taking a detailed, cross-functional approach that resulted in a highly efficient and resilient service product when our customers needed it most.”
In the last three months of 2023, the railroad picked up loaded grain cars from customers’ facilities 55% faster than the year before and transported grain farther each day, increasing the average daily distance grain trains traveled by 38% compared to the same quarter in 2022.
