Farmers loosing billions

[bucket]

Minot to mpls is only 500 miles.

[SASKFARMER3]

The wheat board had problems big problems and didn't want to listen to farmers. We wanted a way to get paid for our product faster, quicker and paid close to what the coast price was minus freight and elevation and Tookage by grain companies.
They didn't listen so they exited stage right.
But the one big big problem with how this all shook out is no measures were put in place to keep information in farmers hands. Forcing rail and grain companies to show what was going on.
When the wheat board war shut down Ritz should have known better than trusting Grain and Railways to do a fair job with farmers.
He was hood winked and so were we for letting it happen.
NO I never want the CWB back but gee a little transparency would be nice in the grain business.
Low dollar should add 1 to 2 to our prices not 1 to 2 less.

[sawfly]

great system for the grain co.s to extort
100s of thousands from every farmer.

did we lose 1$ a bushel on every bushel, canola wheat etc. last winter.
my case 100-150,000$ that hurts.

farmers are the only ones that want it fixed.

nobody else cares, esp. the Harper govt.
their economic Inaction plan is that
we are robbed blind. until we are gone.

and they think it will magically solve itself. (how dumb are they)

your a govt. govern .

make em switch stocks at port .
if a gov. inspector says this terminal . has no 2 and another does too ,fill the boat. and get it the hell out.

I do not know if they are actually
plotting with big business.
or just plain morons

[bucket]

Sawfly

It would be the latter.

[Braveheart]

500 miles to Mpls. 500 back to Minot. 500 500 = 1000 miles.

[canolacrazy]

single desk=dead horse. the beatings are over.

[bucket]

Braveheart

Wouldn't it be the same as in canada. Farmers become truckers but it doesn't mean they are not doing short hauls around mpls.

The plates don't mean they are from halfway across the country with a load.


I see gravel trucks with plates from Alberta and am pretty sure they are not hauling gravel that far.

[Braveheart]

I have a neighbour hauling their wheat to Mpls. They experience some animosity in the lineup from the other truckers which it turns out are ND farmers hauling because grain movement out of central and north central ND elevators is dismal.

[tweety]

re Tweety,
I think you were or are some kind of cartoon character. Am I correct? Go to the CWBA site www.cwbafacts.ca/ and ask them the question.

So what you are saying is you just cut and pasted this topic haphazardly and you have no idea what you are talking about let alone have any data to justify it?

Why bother posting it?

[blackpowder]

Actually, I saw value in going to that website and its links. Pays to study your opponent.