@article{Fulton:31787,
      recid = {31787},
      author = {Fulton, Murray E.},
      title = {The Canadian Wheat Board in an Open Market: The Impact of  Removing the Single-Desk Selling Powers},
      address = {2006},
      number = {1758-2016-141561},
      pages = {41},
      year = {2006},
      abstract = {Over the summer and early autumn of 2006, the Government  of Canada  has indicated its desire to remove the  single-desk selling powers of  the Canadian Wheat Board  (CWB). The purpose of this paper is to  explore the impacts  of this proposal. The main conclusion of the  paper is that  it will be very difficult, if not impossible, for the  CWB  to survive as an organization. Thus, contrary to what the  recent  task force report by the federal government  indicates, the most  likely impact of removing the  single-desk selling powers is that the  CWB will cease to  exist. The elimination of the CWB would transform  the  Canadian grains industry, with the impact of this change  felt in  virtually every part of the system. The changes  that would accompany  the loss of the CWB's single-desk  selling power would make the  Canadian system more and more  like that in the United States. It is  expected, for  instance, that grain company and railroad competition   would fall, that producer cars and short line railways  would suffer,  that the current freight revenue cap would  disappear, and that less  value would be returned to  farmers. Once these changes are made they  are irreversible  - it would be virtually impossible to go back and  restore  the system to what is currently in place. The decision to  make  in a plebiscite. In making this decision, farmers  will have to ask  themselves, "What is my vision of the  grains sector in Canada?"},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/31787},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.31787},
}