Farmer Jae

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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Lots in the media currently about the price of food and family budget of working Australians. This is due to the release of the 1st Australian budget by the Rudd government.
I guess that our journalists needed to write about something because the budget release was pretty uneventful, all the info had been leaked to the […]

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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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The damn water pump broke friday arvo.
Of course it’s the weekend so there’s nothing I can do about it till Monday morning at the earliest and there’s no guarantee that it’ll be fixed then. Plus to add insult to injury, we’ve had some rain so I’ve listened to the water gurgle into those big tanks […]

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I understand why people are using the torch relay to voice their opinions over the events happening in Tibet. The relay is a current high profile event that is accessible to the general population and therefore people will use it to protest and show their anger with China, even-though this oppression has been happening for […]

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