Reaping Rewards of Record Prices Eu to Change Set-Aside Policy As Tight Grain Market Affects Whole Agricultural Sector

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THERE are still odd pockets of grain to be combined in Scotland, but the vast bulk of the harvest is over.

The question now facing those farmers who have not sold their entire crop on forward contracts is the tricky one of when to hit the market. Spot malting barley of the highest quality is touching GBP 200 per tonne, which is a record level and way above the GBP 80 per tonne similar barley was making last September.

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Reaping Rewards of Record Prices Eu to Change Set-Aside Policy As Tight Grain Market Affects Whole Agricultural Sector

The malting trade appears desperate to buy barley and the general advice is certainly not to sell too quickly, though anything in the GBP 180-GBP 200 per tonne range has to ...

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