World: Feed barley exports from the EU increase this year

Feed barley export sales for this year’s crop were concluded at the beginning of the calendar year, mostly for optional origins.

As Australia and Argentina were sold out for old crop barley, and Black Sea sellers started slowly into the new campaign, EU barley gained a large share of the early barley shipments to North Africa and the Middle East. Malting barley shipments of 150,000 tons to Russia, South America and China completed a program of 3.4 mln tons in less than three months of the grain year, industry analysts reported at the beginning of October.

More than 2 mln tons were shipped from France and Germany, but the U.K., Baltic and Black Sea ports, even Spain participated in the business, too. Barley shipments as of the beginning of October were almost 1.6 mln tons ahead of last year, just like wheat with 6.2 mln vs. 3.3 mln tons a year ago.