Can anyone put names to any of these faces?

[farmaholic]

Probably still pining ffor the Crow I'll bet.

When your mid-point shipping to the east or west that ****en crow meant something. Freight out of this area was probably as bad as it got. I thought they used to say Sintaluta Sask was in the middle and we are relatively close to it.

I've noticed over the years since the "open market" Alberta grain price quotes were usually higher than here. I don't expect your farm to subsidize mine's freight rate but maybe the government should have been doing it but not behind the secret curtain of the CWB! How about out of the general revenue fund not out of the CWB pool accounts.

[fjlip]

Well I can't remember without research, what would our freight be today, east and west, and was this on all commodities? Actually I think the rate was equal across the prairies and AB killed it for th advantage of lower rates compared to Sk! do we even know our current rate? Or is it in the "blessed basis"?

[farmaholic]

fj, I would have to look too but I seem to think it was about a buck a bushel for wheat near the end of CWB days. Seems total deductions were about 60 bucks a tonne then. So maybe even higher than a buck a bushel for freight.

Ya, then there was the "trucking" incentives that disappeared to help offset increase costs from rail and elevator consolidation.

There are certain things I would never want to return to either but some things were done wrong IMHO.

Now we have no idea what kind of freight rate is negotiated above or below the rate cap. Some mainline fast loading terminals probably pay less.

[sawfly1]

Could be totally off base .
Was it 13$/ton or 13 Cents /bushel.
Google I guess.
The guy with the cowboy hat in the middle . Maybe looks like someone I know.
When I think who may have been there.
A longshot.

[sawfly1]

Just remember it took just over 2
Years to burn up the compensation
In increased rates.
I was probably ask to go , but never did.
I Was fooled into thinking if they got full compensatory rates .
They actually might haul it.
HA.

And all the feedlots and pig operations, pasta plants and flour
Mills.
We were gonna get. HA.
There are way less now than before the crow went.

You would think it should have
Worked.
Those guys in the pic. were right all along

The Rrs do not have to perform
At all. They are a monolopy.

Do not like our service.
Then load your truck and drive it to the coast.
We will haul it when we get around to it.
By the way we now want 10 times more to haul it.
.
Just read the sign in the middle.
Will you respect us in the morning.
I guess the answer was
No

[Guest]

Well I can't remember without research, what would our freight be today, east and west, and was this on all commodities? Actually I think the rate was equal across the prairies and AB killed it for th advantage of lower rates compared to Sk! do we even know our current rate? Or is it in the "blessed basis"?

We were $1.65/bu total deductions at the end of the CWB days

[sawfly1]

That 1.65 was long after the crow was gone.
At scott sask .it was probably95-1.10 for freight . And 50. -65 cents for everything else.

And I googled pretty hard to find the specific rates for different years way back .
Read a lot
But no luck.
I am sure they are somewhere.
Just not smart enough to find them.

[blackpowder]

Like all socialist meddling it was removed wrong, I'll give you that.

[shtferbrains]

Could be totally off base .
Was it 13$/ton or 13 Cents /bushel.
Google I guess.
The guy with the cowboy hat in the middle . Maybe looks like someone I know.
When I think who may have been there.
A longshot.

Isn't that Larry Weber in that jaunty hat?

[sawfly1]

I find it odd that some of you blame socialists for everything.
Odder yet since socialists have never been in power federally
In this country.
It is either liberals or conservatives and in sask they are virtually interchangeable. With a new name every ten years.
Liberals are hardly socialist.
They sold off CN .
Both parties have big business connections.
Why do you think. You never got grain market
Transparency . When that was supposed to be the whole idea.
And the liberals will not fix it either.
Both work for the same boss.
So the boss always wins no matter who gets elected.

And yet socialists get the blame.

Great system if you are Cp Cn Bayer Richardson, a Bromfmon
Or a Galen Weston.