re: this is what will hit them! - doubt it At the end of the...

re: this is what will hit them! - doubt it At the end of the day, I am just a wheat grower that would like choices in who I sell my wheat to. Jeezus! This is 2005 and I am forced by law to sell my wheat to the AWB and receive an average price when I may well have a farming system that produces a premium quality grain to the 'average' of Australia. I have a freight advantage ($15/t) to growers on the East Coast to export markets in the Middle East and Indonesia. Yet in a drought year where domestic prices are going ballistic on the East Coast, WA growers do not get much leverage to those high prices because the domestic market is deregulated and so farmers in the east bypass the AWB and sell direct. Why shouldn't I be able to get a better price than the average? The Govt has freed up all parts of the economy, it is now time to free the Wheat Industry from the shackles of over-regulation! WA farmers will be the biggest benefitters just as we are now experiencing under the GLA with coarse grains. Just ask farmers in SA who are receiving up to $15/t less for their feed barley because there are, you guessed it, vesting rights on exporting barley from that State. I might add that that is pure profit and with the current economics could be the difference between growers staying or leaving the industry. As for the AWB, my opinion is on the record!