War set the stage for the most dramatic events in marketingthe western crop. For years, farmers mistrusted speculative grainselling as carried on through the Winnipeg Grain Exchange.Wheat prices were generally low in the autumn, so farmers could3. __________
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not wait for markets to improve. It had happened too often thatthey sold their wheat soon shortly after harvest when farm debts4. __________
were coming due, just to see prices rising and speculators getting rich. 5. _________
On various occasions, producer groups asked firmer control,6. __________
but the government had no wish to become involving , at7. __________