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To: Gord Bolton who wrote (84283)	4/7/2002 2:43:40 PM
From: Ahda	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 117072

Aside from the commodity value and possible climate variations it almost looks like a condensed condition of different nations.

To: Gord Bolton who wrote (84283)	4/7/2002 3:01:31 PM
From: bill	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 117072

I think he means the Sask Wheat Pool SWP.B. However, they are hardly a monopoly. They lost 1.47 a share last year. The stock just bumped up over two dollars and is now headed back down. They've been through a disasterous reorganization getting ready for a future that never came. They were a co-op movement owned by the farmers but they've changed their structure to a ltd. stock company. They quit paying a dividend in 1999. Or, he might mean the Canadian Wheat Board. There is a national organization controlled by govt. Hasn't done a bit of good re prices. Wheat prices are so low that Sask farmers have been planting specialty crops of spices and various types of beans. Farmers I know who are planting wheat are only doing so to rotate crops. Prices are as low or lower than during the Great Depression. The contentious part of the Wheat Board's mandate has to do with barley, I believe. Farmers turn up at the US border wanting to truck barley into the US to get a better price. Every so often someone gets arrested and gets his picture in the paper along with his truck.