Gary, do you get your inputs from the Coop also? Used to be a Coop here in NY (Agway) but the management ran that outfit in the ground. What worries me for the future more than grain marketing is input purchases. I hear the Mennonites here have been making considerable efforts to set up their own Coop as well as a federally backed financial institution. If they succeed they will sell to themselves (patrons) for considerably less than the private owned seed and fertilizer dealers will sell to the rest of us. I am guessing that the reason nothing has happened with a Mennonite bank is probably they have no intention of offering services outside of their community which is probably against discrimination laws for government backed banks. Again, just guessing on my part. I am thinking that one of the hold-ups with their co-op efforts is the suppliers may not wish to alienate their other customers. I think it will come down to when the suppliers think the Mennonites have enough critical mass that it will not hurt too bad if the bridges get burned with the other dealers. I guess one of the positives of very few single location machinery dealers left is it has left it harder for anybody to get one to obtain their own personal discount versus the rest of the community. I don't write this because I am prejudiced against the Mennonites but I worry where it will leave guys like me once they get leverage in the local agri-businesses.
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