Sounds like the farmers (and onion consumers) are exposed to a huge amount of financial risk because of the lack of speculators. Onion prices moved up 300%, and then moved down 75%, in two years!? That's even more volatile/crazy than silver. That'd be equivalent to crude moving up to $300 by 2012, and then dropping back down to $100 in 2013. This is a good thing in your eyes? None of the other commodities with active futures markets have seen moves anywhere *close* to that.