Because an additional 1,572 bales are awaiting decertification, while just 351 bales are awaiting certification so they can be added to the exchange's stocks, inventories could fall below 29,000 bales.
The next step could have been to encourage a vote for decertification of the union.
Whitley Hawkins, Delta's president, backs the decertification idea.
Ballots from a decertification election in DePere have been impounded because of a dispute, Mr. Frase said.