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Allen Dick <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 26 Jan 2000 13:09:01 -0700
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I had a chance to talk with Martin Braunstein in San Diego, and it is no secret
that he thinks that the world trade of honey is not an efficient market or that
he thinks that there are cartels controlling prices.  He also has indicated that
there seems to be a 'country' price for honey, where pretty well all the
producers in one country are offered a certain price for honey while producers
in another country are offered a different price -- for honey that is often
virtually indistinguishable.  Anyone reading 'Honey Market News' at
http://www.beesource.com/news/nhmn/ can verify this.

Now that the internet is being used for auctioning off almost everything, what
about honey?  Imagine a site where beekeepers could offer their honey for
auction to buyers and cut out the middleman.  There are some problems such as
confirmation of quality, escrow, shipping, etc., but I can see that we could
have something going using some of the auctioning sites already set up.

With such a system, I think we could avoid the type of wild price swings we have
seen recently, and also encourage smaller packers to compete for supplies more
effectively.

allen
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