Just a Bunch of Farmers

Driver, Deana

ISBN 10: 0968993001 / ISBN 13: 9780968993002

Edité par Weyburn Inland, Weyburn, 2001

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SUBTITLED : ` The Story of Weyburn Inland Terminal 1978 - 2001 '. In Saskatchewan, the home of the co-operative movement, in 1970 Art Mainil and some of his friends began movements to bring grain handling more under the control of farmer-owners. Their concept - a large inland storage facility modelled on those they'd seen in the U.S. and those built in Canada, by the Federal government in 1918, as make-work projects. Thirty one years (and 204 pages) later they had a facility that paid shareholder dividends of $870.000 . There were a few bumps along the way !! LEARN more about : Brian Tytlandsvik, non-Boards, dockage, Paragon-Techtrol, GQA, Gladmar, Condo 1, pelleting, Amber Durhum, crop year, Estey Review, co-mingling, and the Leader-Post. cond ; Paper wrapper is goldy-yellow with black lettering. Front cover graphic is 2 colour photos - one of the original terminal and the other of the modern terminal PLUS condos. CORNERS, edges and spine are all sharp, colours bright, binding tight. Signed (2002) with a short gift inscr. on title page. no names, marks, tears, creases, folds nor bumps. Almost giftable !! Quote (p. 112) : " . Weyburn Review. the terminal announced a `dollars for dockage' plan to pay farmers $60 a tonne for dockage, the foreign material and refuse in grain, which they would then sell as livestock feed. The terminal moved from a distance-related trucking premium rate to a . ." Size: 8vo. N° de réf. du vendeur 004886

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Titre : Just a Bunch of Farmers

Éditeur : Weyburn Inland, Weyburn

Date d'édition : 2001

Reliure : Soft Cover

Illustrateur : B/W Advertisements

Etat : Fine +

Signé : Signed by Author

Edition : First Edition.