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Bill Member

Joined: 02 May 2006 Posts: 15 Location: USA
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Posted: Fri Sep 21, 2007 12:51 am Post subject: Highest Prices For Barley In 10 Years |
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Spotted this in the Scotsman newspaper:
Quote: | The whisky industry is paying its highest prices for barley in ten years, according to the National Farmers Union of Scotland. Prices vary, but the highest is reported to be £200 a tonne. Cereals chairman John Picken said farmers were receiving a price for malting barley closer to what they had long been calling for. Farmers favouring food crops had reduced the barley acreage to a 30-year low. |
I wonder if it will have much of an impact on whisky prices now or in the near future . As if the big companies need an excuse to increase whisky prices.
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islayonspey Double Malt Member


Joined: 12 Sep 2007 Posts: 120 Location: Dufftown, Speyside, Scotland
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Posted: Sun Sep 23, 2007 8:55 am Post subject: Highest Prices For Barley In 10 Years |
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Bill wrote: | Spotted this in the Scotsman newspaper:
Quote: | The whisky industry is paying its highest prices for barley in ten years, according to the National Farmers Union of Scotland. Prices vary, but the highest is reported to be £200 a tonne. Cereals chairman John Picken said farmers were receiving a price for malting barley closer to what they had long been calling for. Farmers favouring food crops had reduced the barley acreage to a 30-year low. |
I wonder if it will have much of an impact on whisky prices now or in the near future . As if the big companies need an excuse to increase whisky prices.
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Hi Bill,
Living on Speyside, I've seen the barley around us in a dismal state, too much rain and wind and I'm not surpriced that the price per tonne is high. It's bad for the whisky industry but we hope that farmers will injoy their "windfall" and plant more next year, although I can't see prices of whiskies coming done in the future ! ! Slainte
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