The following is excerpted from the 28 June 2011 issue of Reuters Canada.

The Canadian Wheat Board will hold a farmers' vote on the future of its grain-trade monopoly in a late-hour bid to stop Ottawa from opening up the trade to competition.

The Wheat Board said on Tuesday that the farmer vote on whether to retain the world's last major agricultural monopoly, will take place over the summer. It will not be legally binding...

The article is available in its entirety on the Reuters Canada website at:

http://ca.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idCATRE75R3JI20110628

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