50 village idiots

[Buzz31]

The clowns can't even keep the classes of wheat separate as it is, so why would more classes change anything?

[Buzz31]

The CWB kept the railways at bay. The grain companies can't or won't because it doesn't matter to them. If the railways screw up the grain cos will just lower the price to whatever and you have to take it.

Isn't it convenient that the railways were blamed for the 'transportation crisis' but who made the most money from it?

[tstep]

Right on buzz.

[FarmRanger]

If by "at bay" you mean systematically sacrificing farmers shipping of wheat to allow railways to maximize their profits from a lower investment in infrastructure, then I agree with you.

[stonepicker]

Buzz31, how do grain co's make money from grain not moving? They don't. If a company makes an overseas sale they have to buy the grain from farmers and then get it to port, if the ship has to wait the GRAIN CO. pays the demurrage, not the farmer ( as in days gone by ) Grain co's don't want to sit on grain, it costs them money! ( again in the past a co. would make money sitting on wheat and guess who pd. for that? The farmer! )

[Buzz31]

The grain moved eventually, the only difference was farmers lost billions in the process, something that wouldn't have happened in a CWB single-desk environment.

[stonepicker]

make that 52

[FarmRanger]

The grain moves eventually with or without the holding of wheat off of the market by the orderly marketer, or by the overloading of the rail system. Apparently the billions we lost because of the single desk buyer doesn't matter to the CWBA.