"If we sell it at high moisture, then they deduct the price because of the cost of drying it down, " Schmidt said.

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This would allow a risky portfolio to be liquidated at a predictable pace and cost should prices fall in response to a drying-up of liquidity.

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The SPAA say that producers' revenues from broadcast licence fees have remained stagnant for the last decade, while the cost of production has doubled and overseas finance is "drying up".

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