{"href":"https://api.simplecast.com/oembed?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgrowing-the-future.simplecast.com%2Fepisodes%2Fwho-has-the-export-data-loPr0a4q","width":444,"version":"1.0","type":"rich","title":"Who Has the Export Data?","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/1fa356cd-6e54-41a2-bbf4-99a91ee4ce68/7814cf5b-36aa-418f-a745-3406ebc29e65/whos_got_the_export_data.jpg","thumbnail_height":300,"provider_url":"https://simplecast.com","provider_name":"Simplecast","html":"<iframe src=\"https://player.simplecast.com/62b02d2c-cfb1-4717-8c8b-f2698c864c6f\" height=\"200\" width=\"100%\" title=\"Who Has the Export Data?\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"></iframe>","height":200,"description":"Ryan Bonnett (ABB Solutions), Marlene Boersch (Mercantile Consulting Venture), Philip Speiss (Beeson Summers Futures Group, RBC), and John De Pape (PDQ/FARMCo) laid out the case that Canadian grain farmers are pricing canola and wheat in near-total darkness while their American counterparts receive weekly USDA export sales data and same-day alerts on large sales. Marlene Boersch's 2024 report quantified the cost at a minimum of $56.5 million per year in foregone farm income - a conservative estimate using a single data variable. The conversation moved from the technical gap to the political reality: grain companies benefit from information asymmetry and will not fix it voluntarily, which means change requires either government mandate or a grassroots farmer movement large enough to force one. Blair Goldade (Saskatchewan Crop Commissions) confirmed his team has in-person Ottawa meetings scheduled the following week, and Ryan Bonnett closed by calling for a farmer petition - the kind of organized pressure that has moved policy before.\n"}