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Pstp Econ ag "n the 1920s and 30s farmers in Australia and Canada reacted against the pricing power of the large grain-handling and shipping companies. Their governments created the Australian Wheat Board and Canadian Wheat Board as monopsony marketing boards, buying all the wheat in those countries for export. Together those two boards controlled a large percentage of the world's grain trade in the mid 20th century. Additionally, farmer's cooperatives such the wheat pools became a popular alternative to the major grain companies. At the same time in the Soviet Union and soon after in China, disastrous collectivization programs effectively turned the world's largest farming nations into net importers of grain. By the second half of the 20th Century, the grain trade was divided between a few state-owned and privately-owned giants. The state giants were Exportkhleb of the Soviet Union, the Canadian Wheat Board, the Australian Wheat Board, the Australian Barley Board, and so on. The largest private companies, known as the "big five", were Cargill, Continental, Louis Dreyfus, Bunge, and Andre. In 1972, the Soviet Union's wheat crop failed. To prevent shortages in their own country, Soviet authorities were able to buy most of the surplus American harvest through private companies without the knowledge of the United States government. This drove up prices across the world, and was dubbed the "Great Grain Robbery" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... by critics, leading to greater public attention being paid by Americans to the large trading companies." http://books.google.com/books... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... , pstp ag crop - Thomas Page

During the classical age, the unification of China and the pacification of the Mediterranean basin by the Roman Empire created vast regional markets in commodities at either end of Eurasia. The grain supply to the city of Rome was considered by be of the utmost strategic importance to Roman generals and politicians. In Europe with the collapse of the Roman system and the rise of feudalism many farmers were reduced to a subsistence level, producing only enough to fulfill their obligation to their lord and the Church, with little for themselves, and even less for trade. The little that was traded was moved around locally at regular fairs. A massive expansion in the grain trade occurred when Europeans were able to bring millions of square kilometers of new land under cultivation in the Americas, Russia, and Australia, in an expansion starting in the fifteenth and lasting into the twentieth century. In addition the consolidation of farmland in Britain and Eastern Europe, and the development of the railway and steam ship shifted trade from local to more international patterns. [ 2 -8 http://friendfeed.com/citizen... http://friendfeed.com/citizen... 2 -13 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andrea-... - Thomas Page

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6 -9 Pit is a fast-paced card game http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... for three to seven players, designed to simulate open outcry bidding for commodities. The game was developed for Parker Brothers and first sold in 1904. This popular version of the game was developed by Edgar Cayce,[1] who would also become famous for his psychic predictions.[2] The inspirations were the Chicago Board of Trade (known as 'The Pit') and the US Corn Exchange and it was likely based on the very successful game Gavitt's Stock Exchange, invented in 1903 by Harry E. Gavitt of Topeka, Kansas (and reprinted in 2004 in an authentic "heirloom" edition by Out of the Box Publishing). Versions of the game have been marketed under the names Billionaire, Business, Cambio, Deluxe Pit, Quick 7, and Zaster.[2] http://www.hasbro.com/common... https://winning-moves.com/images... - Thomas Page

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