Recently the assistant (Saskatchewan Wheat) Pool agent handed me an incredulous folder regarding the proposed closing of the Blaine Lake, Sask., elevator, which listed some feeble options.
The best option is delivering grain to Leask, which more than doubles my trucking distance and hinders farming efficiency. Closing the Blaine Lake plant is a strange way to expect Pool loyalty.
According to the folder, sales will continue as before but the new grain services are an insult. There is no mention of cleaning grain. This among some other items contradict the heading, “Some Things are Changing, The Important Things are not.”
Read Also
Agriculture needs to prepare for government spending cuts
As government makes necessary cuts to spending, what can be reduced or restructured in the budgets for agriculture?
The reality is the most important new things are changing for the worse.
Quotations heading some pages didn’t come from farmers but from corporate interests engaged in agriculture, who in part have and are contributing toward the agricultural crisis.
Private corporations tend to be oblivious toward the public. In fact, they see the public as something to dominate. Those who have read Merchants Of Grain and viewed the documentary The Money Masters will see in detail the connection between the money masters and major private grain companies, who also influence business concentrations, increased public taxation, private corporate exemptions, racial conflicts, riddling governments with debt and even causing wars.
If the Pool were devoted to farmers, democracy and the co-operative spirit, it would work to expose these “money changers” who manipulate politicians and much media. In addition, the money masters are the root cause of cost-price squeezes, rail-line abandonment and elevator closures, which devastate our roads.
The Canadian Alliance and the Saskatchewan party make much of these serious problems but their neglect to realize the real cause and exposing these money changers, who at will subtly control international economies, makes one wonder whether there isn’t a connection between these parties and the clever international financiers.
– Stuart Makaroff,
Saskatoon, Sask.
