Are you concerned about the impact on grain prices of such a policy?

Among these policy changes was the artificial increase of grain prices above market levels.

On top of all this, the company is coming off a record year when grain prices were low and demand for many products high.

Grain prices are at their lowest level in more than three decades.

And is the problem not simply going to get worse over the next few years when grain prices come down still further with Agenda 2000?

When this happens, it will almost certainly drive grain prices upward.

Of course, many have been burned by the swings in grain prices.

But when grain prices began to plunge last year, farmers turned to the Government for help.

I wish to raise the issue of the surge in grain prices.

But is not the Commission's policy of reducing grain prices also to blame?