Its possible. But at least I know there is a track.
The problem with the simplistic arguements you are putting forward are many but one is that you consistently suggest that returns would have been better throughout the past without the single desk. Clearly that is impossible to prove and for anyone with real experience (not conceptual theory) in the area is wrong.
The second is that somehow the single desk will stop the benifits of a forecast boom in coarse grain prices flowing through to producers ? Why would that be ?
Go ask vegetable and fruit growers how things are progressing for them in a deregulated market.
The private buyers are getting bigger and fewer and whilst retail prices might be going up most if not all of the profit is flowing to the middleman.
i have always had a problem with the operator of the single desk sitting in a listed entity - it was stupid ideological rubbish. But that does not take away from the benifits of a single desk itself.
However all profits of the operator should flow back to the growers. And the growers should oversee the operator.
Now, what is your better model ? oh yes, Cargill et al.
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