Graincorp is the biggest handler of grain along the eastern states, with Western Australia dominated by Australian-owned CBH and South Australia by Swiss-owned Viterra. The now US-owned remains of AWB have a presence across the country and Australian-owned Emerald Grain has a significant presence in Victoria and New South Wales.But ADM has spotted value in the 75 per cent of the eastern seaboard market handled by Graincorp. It's clear to farmers that its attractiveness to a foreign buyer will involve some rationalisation of the firm's bulk handling facilities.As wheat grower Anna Dennis told the ABC last week: "A company based in America really isn't going to give a damn if a small silo in a small village closes down and the local farmers have to drive an extra 50 kilometres with their grain."That kind of sentiment has been the political stock in trade of the National Party for many years, most recently seen in the report-burning protests over Labor's draft Murray-Darling Basin Plan in 2010.Cheap Navy Metal Chain Bikini Set on sale
Barnaby Joyce, who has moved from the Senate to a higher-profile role as Agriculture Minister in the House of Representatives since the last election, was on the ground during those protests,Cheap Tassels V-neck One Piece Swimsuit on sale fanning the flames.Such mobilisation of political passion is nothing new.discount school girl costume You simply find those adversely affected and foreground their concerns while skating over broader issues of national interest.In the Murray-Darling reforms,bikini chain belt Labor was trying to balance the ecological concerns of (mostly) city-based voters with the concerns of small farming communities, which feared a loss of scale that would see regional economies struggle to survive.The problem now for the Coalition is that what works in one dispute – Joyce and others did help to alter Labor's water buy-back plans before the draft became the final Basin Plan – can backfire in another.This time around, the Nationals are feeling the political heat from their constituents, who may be personally disadvantaged by a rationalisation of Graincorp's operations under the direction of overseas bossfactory connection high heel shoeses.But that on-the-ground lobbying is directly at odds with the Coalition's heroic claim that Australia is "open for business". Tony Abbott even used that line in his victory speech.In a way, ADM wants to make 'super profits' by squeezing more economic return from the Graincorp supply chain.
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