I know that grain isn’t the only commodity that ABB handles but a 33.6 million half year profit is obscene. Especially when your main core business is handling and marketing grain.
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It gets me grumpy when the middle men make ridiculous amounts at the farmers expense - Sure those farmers lucky enough to […]
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ABB is obscene
June 1st, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: Farming · grain · politics · rant
AWB - Shafting the Farmer Again
April 16th, 2008 · No Comments
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 […]
Quick lesson about rain.
April 11th, 2008 · No Comments
Quick couple of facts for the city slickers who read this.
4 points equals 1mm
100 points equals 1 inch
1 inch of rain equals a major celebration here.
We got 11mm last night (45 points) - that’s the second time it’s really rained all year. First time was in January now in April.
All the reports say that we […]