US prepares to topple Wheat Board monopoly

摘要

US graingrowers say privatisation of the Australian Wheat Board will mean a reduction in government control but it is argued that true reform will only come from removal of the board's export monopoly. UNITED States graingrowers are set to embark on arenewed push to overturn the Australian Wheat Board's single-desk export monopoly. The US industry is eagerly awaiting the looming privatisation of the AWB. Its peak council is already lobbying internationally for removal of the board's single-desk status.