The weather in Portugal was particularly bad during the 1997/98 marketing year.

However, two production and marketing years seem necessary to allow farmers to adapt to this change.

A similar situation will arise when the quotas are distributed for the 2000/01 marketing year.

We reject the Commission's proposal to reduce target prices by 28% over the next five marketing years.

Imports are expected to total 60 million bushels in the current marketing year, which ends next May 31.

The production of the current marketing year was recently revised downwards in certain countries, including Australia.

Since the marketing year 2005-2006, the two tournaments of the lidbondentoernooi merged.

I therefore fully support the extension of the organisation of the market in sugar until the marketing year 2005/2006.

Marketing year refers to the 12-month period, generally from the beginning of a new harvest, over which a crop is marketed.

Wheat declined on indications that the coming marketing year will bring tougher export competition.

The cereal market at the beginning of the marketing year 2007/08 is characterised by historically high prices both at Community and world level.

That would require a provisional extension of the quota without restructuring levy for the marketing year 2006/2007.

In marketing years, he's as old as Jimmy Carter.

In the meantime, the Commission is proposing to extend the main mechanisms of the current organisation of the sugar market for two marketing years.

But, at the moment, the most prudent course of action is to set the level of set-aside for the next marketing year at 5 %.

It is in the common interest today to give the go-ahead to this reform in any case, before the marketing year begins in November.

In addition to those factors, a glut of cocoa is expected in the next marketing year, which begins Oct. 1.

You said this morning, Commissioner, that this is the second marketing year that the new regime for fruit and vegetables has been in force.

Normality ends there, though, because for the past eight months roughly 70 % of Community rice production for the 1996/97 marketing year has remained unsold.

Any amendments needed to the regulation and subsequent amendments to the regulation could then be applied with effect from the 2001/02 marketing year.

Under the organization's rules, those countries will be required to make up the difference of 2 million bags during the second half of the organization's marketing year.

Wheat sales to countries targeted by the export program amounted to 18.6 million tons during the marketing year ended June 30, the Bush Administration said.

The sector has to know sufficiently in advance what the new sugar regime looks like in order to make their decisions for the common marketing year 2006-2007.

The common organisation of the market in sugar has already undergone several reforms, including an agreement to reduce quotas by 500 000 tonnes for the 2000-2001 marketing year.

After enlargement, six of the ten new Member States have been involved in the potato starch quota system for the first time in 2004-2005 marketing year.