Isbn: 9780968993002 - Just a Bunch of Farmers : the Story of Weyburn Inland Terminal 1976-2001 (4 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Fine +. First Edition. 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. B/W Advertisements (illustrator). Signed by Author(s).…

[0-9689930-0-1] 2001. (Mass market paperback) As new. 204pp. Signed by author. Second copy, unsigned, also available for $15.

[0-9689930-0-1] 2001. (Trade paperback) Very good. 204pp. Photographs, illustration, chart, tables. There is a previous owner's bookplate and the top corner of the title page is a little wrinkled. Locale: ; Prairie Provinces; Western Canada; Weyburn--Saskatchewan. (Western Canada, Business--Canada, Farming--Canada, Grain Elevators, Grain Trade, Weyburn Inland Terminal Ltd., Wheat Farming). …

[0-9689930-0-1] 2001. (Trade paperback) Fine. 204pp. Signed with inscription by the author. Photographs, illustration, chart, tables. Locale: ; Prairie Provinces; Western Canada; Weyburn--Saskatchewan. (Western Canada, Business--Canada, Farming--Canada, Grain Elevators, Grain Trade, Weyburn Inland Terminal Ltd., Wheat Farming).…