Witness what has happened since we gave away the Crow rate.
We were told that there would be flour mills, pasta plants, feedlots, slaughter plants, and all kinds of good would come to Western Canada.
Well, the only thing we got was we have to pay more to haul our grain, and the rail service has deteriorated. The railways have control of hauling grain and they have taken advantage.
Next to go will be the Canadian Wheat Board.
Some farmers tell us, ‘I want to sell my own grain.’ This will not happen.
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The grain companies will tell you what they will pay, and we will have no say.
People don’t realize the companies don’t compete; they work together. There is a lot of money in buying and selling and the merchants of grain want it, so our government is doing all they can to help them instead of thinking of those who grow the grain.
Grain farmers’ biggest problem is when people who have never shovelled a bushel of wheat think they should tell us how to market it.
T.E. Finnson,Arborg, Man.
