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11 March 1998 BARLEY USERS DEMAND QUALITY ASSURANCE SCHEMES BARLEY end-users are moving towards buying supplies only from farm-assured growers and farmers, UK Agricultural and Supply Trade
Association director Jim Reed has warned. Mr Reed said farmers complying with quality assurance schemes will find it easier to sell their grain. But low prices are besetting the industry
with an estimate that more than 1.2 million tonnes of feed barley will soon be in intervention stores — some 25% of that from Scotland. Mr Reed suggested farmers would have to get used to
prices of about £70/t and he urged them to look at cutting fixed costs. Jeremy Saunders, chief executive of the Central Farmers co-operative, said agrochemical prices might be 10% cheaper
this spring but fertiliser prices were unlikely to change apart from nitrogen which would incur a steep rise because of an import levy. * _The Scotsman 11/03/98 page 29 _
