Love, Food and Deception More rants on the lies that are told about the agrifood system, and those who seek to deceive us. A Wheat Market Surplus The era of government-controlled wheat exports by major exporters is gone, and if we may say so, with good riddance. The evolution of the world wheat market and the disengagement of governments has meant, among other things, that a geographically dispersed private sector marketing chain extending from wheat growers to wheat users must shoulder all of the risks involved -- including, most importantly, price risk. The Continuing Evolution of Agricultural Protectionism As long as there has been international agricultural trade, countries have used some form of protectionism to safeguard their pr...

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