It's an issue on which different people with different points of view hold their opinions very strongly. And I can't blame anyone for that - this is an important issue and there's a great deal at stake here. The Canadian Wheat Board has been there for 64 years. It serves 120,000 Canadian farmers as a single-desk seller for wheat, durum, and barley. On dual marketing .
Dual marketing has a nice ring to it.
It sounds like you're giving people more options - they can market their grain through the Canadian Wheat Board or on their own. It sounds like you can have the best of both worlds. But in fact, dual marketing is just open marketing by another name. For a number of reasons, it just wouldn't work. First of all, in a dual market, or an open market, the Canadian Wheat Board would be diminished in size.