Pricing Issues in the Australian Wheat Industry

Introduction This report is going to outline and explain pricing issues in the Australian wheat industry, covering the topics of production & consumption, trade, industry structure and price. Australia is currently one of top five wheat producing countries in the world. We represent only 3% of global wheat production but account for up to 18% of total world exports. Production Between 1995 & 2000 wheat production in Australia averaged 37.2million tonnes with Western Australia being the biggest …showed first 75 words of 2853 total…

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