Farmer Jae

AWB has just announced that all farmers involved in their Pool will need to take a cut per ton due to competing prices with the Canadian and US Wheat market.

http://www.abc.net.au/rural/news/content/200804/s2217276.html

Does anyone else out there think this is utter bullshit?

The media is currently full of stories about the shortage of food worldwide and how this shortage is driving prices up.

http://www.theage.com.au/news/environment/

http://www.dailygazette.com/news/2008/feb/29/0229_wheat/

http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2008/02/20/wheat-prices.html

And that’s just a small selection - but of course AWB are using the US/Canadian forecasts to shaft the Aussie Farmer once again.

Do we all remember the Aussie forecasts last year?? Last year’s crop was going to be the biggest ever - THE BIGGEST - then it all went pear-shaped cause it stopped raining in August.

How come we don’t see the useless executives at AWB taking a pay cut? Say only 150K a year instead of 200K - No, can’t do that, it’s much easier to just make the farmer pay once again by feeding them some bullshit line that no one will buy our crop.

We haven’t sold anything to AWB in 3 years and yet we still get the large quantities of expensive glossy marketing paraphernalia they send in the mail telling us how good they are. I always wonder how much it costs them to send that crap to each and every farmer when a simple A4 piece of paper could give the same information. I suppose you’ve got to have something keep all those useless monkeys called “the marketing team” busy.

Even though our farm has had two years of drought and we haven’t any wheat to sell, Thank God we went organic and don’t have to deal with that scum anymore.

Hey - I’ve just figured out what AWB really means

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