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For the 2018 harvest all Glanbia quoted or announced prices for green grain will include a premium payment for delivery to a specified drying location. This follows the decision last October to encourage farmers to deliver grain to one of the 16 drying facilities.
Grain prices quoted this year will include a standard transport allowance of €3/t, with higher allowances paid for growers located more than 15km from the relevant drying locations.
While the 24 intermediate local intake points will remain available, crops delivered to these intake points will not qualify for a transport allowance and will not accept quantities from individual growers greater than those delivered in 2017, the company said in a statement this week.
Distant bands
The transport allowance is based on eight distance bands, with the subsidy amount increasing alongside distance from the drying location. Grain delivered from a distance of below 15km can avail of a transport allowance of €3/t. The maximum band, D8 covers a distance of beyond 105km, where a subsidy of €10.5/t is paid. See table 1 below for the full list of distance bands.
Proposed locations
The full list of proposed drying locations can be seen in Figure 1 below. If grain is delivered to a drying location which does not dry that particular grain product Glanbia will not pay the transport subsidy.
For example, malting barley will only be accepted at the following locations: D.Walsh; Daltons; Dairygold Mogeely; Campile; Castlelyons; Clonroche Branch; Derrygrath; Steacys and Taghmon.
However, only grain delivered directly to one of these three drying locations, D.Walsh, Daltons & Dairygold, will attract a transport payment.
Green denotes the site which is a drying location for the listed product, while red denotes a site which is not a drying location for the listed product in 2018.
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