Posted by old harv on December 15, 2010 at 05:18:00 from (198.164.30.19):
In Reply to: Re: Grain costs. posted by JayinNY on December 14, 2010 at 15:24:32:
Ton is the standard english measure that weighs 2000 lbs. Tonne is the french measure that our former communistic leader Pierre Elliot Treaudeau forced on us 30 years ago and weighs 2200 lbs. That's why its spelled different. So when you compare grain prices in Canada to 50 years ago, you always have to remember to convert the weights. A neighbour told me that in 1960 he was getting $150 dollars a ton for barley delivered to the mill. That was a 2000lb ton, not the 2200lb tonne of today. According to my rough calculations, if barley had gone up the same amount as the so-called average wage, barley would be worth $1800 per tonne today.
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