South America: Weather causing concerns about barley quality in Uruguay and Brazil

Weather in Argentina has been a bit cold and wet, but in the view of the GrainCom analysts, there is no reason for concern as of now.

The partly heavy rain is a bigger concern for Uruguay, and the first cuts in Brazil (20% in the bins up to now) are showing unsatisfactory results, GrainCom said in their latest report on November 3.

Debate has started about if / how much barley South America will need to import from non-Mercosur countries. For crop 2018, the farmers sold up to now 322 tonnes of malting barley for export, and 175 thousand tonnes of feed barley (as of the 25th of October), in total just 7.5 thousand tonnes more than the week before.

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