WHEAT farmers held a ceremony to mark the two-year anniversary of the death of the single desk outside Parliament House in Canberra this morning.
Rankins Springs farmer Jock Munro played the bagpipes to mark the anniversary prior to meetings between growers and various politicians.
"We have a wheat industry that’s in decline … because of the loss of the national pool," Mr Munro said.
"Unfortunately it will collapse before we get something in order to go on again and be the great industry it once was."
Nationals senate leader Barnaby Joyce said the abolition of the single desk arrangement had been "a complete stuff up".
"Some who supported it are now having second thoughts on it," Senator Joyce said.
"The people who are affected are the price takers, the price takers are the farmers."
Senator Joyce said it would be a "hard grind" to reintroduce a process for the orderly marketing of wheat but offered a "strong commitment over the long term to try to do something about this".
