farmer ignorance unfortunate, page-3

Surely farmers would want a monopoly position when selling abroad. Anybody whose a good trader knows that fewer sellers and more buyers pushes up the price. If we go away from the single desk we increase the selling side and potentially weaken the price. A good example is the iron ore industry; over a period of time, the number of sellers in Australia was reduced, and the price increased...the latest up 70+%. Watch China start to reduce the number of manufacturers in order to increase the prices and profits. The US would have screamed earlier than this, but would have lost Australian troops in Iraq. Only Howard and his merry men are denying the obvious. Will our uranium be sold by anybody at any price, I don't think so.