Archive Article: 2000/06/30

30 June 2000

Prisma spring barley – all 25,000t of it – was loaded this week at Dundee. The Christiane Oldendorff is bound for South Africa, marking the second deal of the season between South African Breweries and Glencore Grain. The company has shipped a total of 60,000t this season to this new market. Scottish farmers produced a surplus of about 200,000t of malting barley last harvest. This Prisma had too high a nitrogen content for distilling, but was ideal for South African lager production, says Glencore.