"The Deregulation of Wheat and Barley Marketing in Australia and Potential Application to Western Canada"
The report examined why the Australian grain marketing system changed and the events that occurred during its deregulation. It also examined how their system evolved and how it operates today. The report concludes that in Australia, supply chain costs have declined with more marketing choices and competition, resulting in higher net returns to growers.
After reviewing the Australian system, the report's authors put forward several options for consideration in Western Canada that include:
A new regulatory body that examines and reports on single desk seller performance;
A new regulatory body that also grants export permits into non-premium markets to provide market competition;
Single desk selling continuing in export markets for wheat and barley and domestic deregulation (no domestic single desk);
Individual provinces decide whether to have a single desk seller for barley into export markets;
No single desk selling in barley, either export or domestic.
