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ABB is obscene

June 1st, 2008 · No Comments

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.
Rural ABC News
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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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 […]

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Tags: Farming · rant · wheat

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 […]

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Tags: Farming · Rain