Originally posted by Oncle Boris
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Large corporations that transform milk suffer very little from price variations; producers take all the shots, and should get some help.
2. This is why commodity futures markets exist. Producers are completely capable of hedging their exposure to price fluctuations, for a fee.
And I'm sure that if people want to buy fries made of non-hydrogenated oil, someone will sell it to them.
There is no lack of transformed product diversity, but there is a clear lack of brute resource diversity. Read more on agriculture.
Better products are available in Quebec too; we're just keeping a minimum quality level for large scale supply.
And yes indeed, I suspect in this case that the division of benefits into a high number of smaller actors preserves a check of power.
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