Yes!! Why should the big corporations have a say in the price of the goods they buy? I think the government should tell them what to pay.
And those brokers on the Board of Trade floor are just a bunch of leeches. The government should take all their money and give it to the farmers.
Basically you would end up with vertical integration on a scale much closer to the defunct USSR than would be comfortable for me. I can buy corn right now if I want to, but take away CBOT and then ADM or Cargill will tell you what they want to pay. I would wager if that you took the lean hog contract from the board then the pork industry would be top to bottom with a few industrial corps squeezing what little life is left of the independent producer.
Consumers shouldn't have a say in the price of crops, they should have a say in the price of the food they purchase from the BIG corporations who really rack up the $$.
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Maybe you should buy some stock in those BIG corporations who are racking up all those $$. If you did your homework, however, you would most likely invest your money elsewhere as the food business provides only modest profitability. That's why there is so much consolidation going on within the industry.