RURAL AFFAIRS: Huge cost of abolishing national wheat pool*

Large, sausage-shaped storage bags dotted across the rural landscape are a sign of the disaster unfolding since the single selling-desk for wheat was abolished three years ago.
Many growers have been left to store their wheat on-farm, using huge white plastic bags holding around 250 tonnes of wheat.
This system of storage has been forced on farmers as grain-traders have cherry-picked the best wheat, leaving the main silos and other storage facilities full with the previous season&rsquo…

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