Just a Bunch of Farmers:
The Story of Weyburn Inland Terminal  1976-2001

by Deana Driver

  Just a Bunch of Farmers is a story of entrepreneurship and perseverance. Tired of politicians and bureaucrats determining their fate, a group of southeastern Saskatchewan farmers took matters into their own hands in 1975 and, despite opposition and some near disasters, built a unique innovative grain-handling facility to improve their own future. The book outlines some of the turmoil surrounding the Weyburn Inland Terminal (W.I.T.) over its first 25 years, including a construction lien, contract disputes and a major split in the founding fathers in 1998. Weyburn Inland Terminal Ltd. was the first inland grain terminal in Canada to be completely owned and operated by farmers. It amassed an impressive list of 14 ‘firsts’ in its first quarter century, including being the first in Canada to do protein testing, cleaning and drying of grain on the Prairies as well as the first in Canada to build grain condominiums to use as farmer-owned storage units. WIT was the first to pay farmers for the refuse in their grain and the first to win the Canadian Wheat Board ‘Quality First’ award for excellence in grain-handling.

ISBN: 0-9689930-0-1     208 pages/130 photos

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