Since the introduction of a reserve price scheme in 1970, the interest in wool marketing previously shown by agricultural economists has not been maintained outside the public service and the wool industry itself. Nor is the subject as divisive amongst wool growers with, in general, 'orderly...

In many respects, the Australian wheat industry is unusual. It is extensively regulated in all its activities beyond the farm-gate, yet the overall effect of Government regulation since 1948 has been to reduce the incomes of wheatgrowers (Longworth and Knopke 1982). The partial equilibrium...