Australia’s bumper barley harvest finds new buyers

Australia’s bumper barley harvest finds new buyers

Kyiv, 19 January (Argus) — Australia doubled its barley exports on the year in the first two months of the 2021-22 season following another bumper harvest, targeting new buyer markets, amid weaker Canadian production and lack of purchases from China.

Australia's exports almost doubled with 119,366t of malting barley and 971,669t of feed barley shipped so far in the 2021-22 marketing year that started in October, compared with 62,508t and 441,014t shipped, respectively, the same time last year, according to trade data from the Global Trade Tracker (GTT).

Some 33,000t of Australian malting barley headed to Mexico in October-November 2021. Mexico's purchases of Australian barley started in January 2021, with 140,944t exported from the origin in the 2020-21 marketing year.