PRODUCERS who are eligible to apply for quota from the national

reserve under the Suckler Cow Premium Scheme must return completed forms

by March 3, according to the Scottish Office Agriculture Department.

Those who qualify for the 1994 scheme year include farmers whose

particip-ation in an environmental scheme in the base year -- 1992 -

resulted in a reduction in numbers that year.

Other categories are:- a producer taking over land from a tenant who

has taken the quota with him; those entering an ''arable reversion''

scheme; newcomers to farming; a producer entering an Organic Aid scheme;

first-time claimants under the 1994 scheme and producers taking over

land formerly used for suckler cow production but temporarily under

non-agricultural use.