I have grown wheat on my farm and tried to sell it privately and have always gone to the Ontario Wheat Board to sell my grain.
Selling your grain privately is a harder task than you think. It's very difficult, as an individual farmer, to negotiate like that. And the advantages of selling through the Wheat Board far outweighs the advantage of my ever selling it privately. I get protein bonuses, I get bonuses for on-farm storage, I get my cheque very quickly, and then later on, I get all these other surprise cheques in the mail as the wheat price goes up.
So I really advocate anything when it comes to single-desk selling and collective bargaining. It's been wonderful for me as a farmer, and for a farmer who has had the choice, the choice has never worked for me.