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Originally Posted by JFK
I wish I knew more about this. Ultimately I believe this will help drive grain prices higher by eliminating that middle man (wheat board), but I know that's a far too simplistic way of thinking. I don't know enough about it.
Will be interesting though, that's for sure.
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Basically you're allowing the farmers to choose their middle-man (although a corporate middle-man who's probably going to be more profit-oriented but also more efficient). The obvious thing here is that farmers in eastern Canada have always had that choice; it's only on the prairies that there's been this monopoly. It was extremely important for prairie farmers in the middle of the last century. Now, probably time to move on.