The highlights of the past two weeks include firming European barley values due to concerns over disease pressure from continued rains.  Meanwhile Western Canada received very timely rains and warm weather to advance crops toward an optimistic outcome. Australian barley areas have mostly received good rains with the exception of South Queensland and Northern New […]

Growing conditions in the world’s major barley producing countries continue to be generally good.  Some areas (Western Europe and Argentina) have actually been too wet but Western Canada has received very timely rains over the past two weeks which has vastly improved conditions.   Markets continue to be generally quiet with limited forward selling of […]

Current conditions in the world’s major barley growing areas are generally good with the exception of the western portion of the Canadian prairies.  Markets are generally quiet with steady Chinese (premium beer) demand for high quality Australian malting barley (and Canadian if available) but stocks are very limited. Australian barley areas vary from being too […]