Again, I am going to be careful here, because there is a director in place, and I respect that.
So I am going to answer with my personal opinion, which I think is acceptable, and that is based on my experience at the Canadian Wheat Board.
In my personal opinion, it is not going to be possible, if we have a number of individuals trying to negotiate the contracts, to get the prices that the single desk does for farmers. I see it in a number of markets. The malting barley market internationally is a very small marketplace with only two or three very large players. Certainly if we turn the supplies of western Canada loose on that marketplace, I think it will depress prices, and farmers will be worse off because of that action.
We continue to try to extract premiums from that marketplace with the single desk, and I think we've been successful in doing that. There have been studies. The Schmitz and Gray study is the most recent that actually put a value on that.
So in my opinion, they would not be able to get the prices that are got through the single desk. But that is my opinion.