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Abstract: Trends in Production and Markets for Western Canadian Malting Barley Varieties | |
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| | Canadian Wheat Board surveys of farmer seeded acres over the past four years are showing a trend towards more production of the newer recommended varieties of malting barley and less production of traditional established malting varieties such as Harrington. The two-row malting varieties have also been taking an increasing share of the total barley area, primarily displacing of feed and hulless varieties and to a lesser extent displacing six-row malting varieties. The increased production of recommended two-row malting varieties is partly due to the market pull from increasing domestic and international customer acceptance of these varieties as satisfactory replacements for Harrington, and partly due to the fact that some of these varieties can compete with existing feed barley varieties on agronomic, yield and feed grain quality attributes. The lesser susceptibility of two-row varieties to Fusarium Head Blight in the Eastern Prairies is another factor encouraging the trend towards increasing two-row production. Tables provided show trends in production of varieties in Western Canada in the past four years and the recent comparative level of sales of these varieties to the domestic and export markets. It is expected that the recent trend of a high percentage of the Western Canadian barley area being devoted to malting barley varieties will continue, and with the addition of newer varieties in the coming years replacing older established varieties.
Michael Brophy and Andrea Lowther-Hilderman
Canadian Wheat Board, Market Development
P.O. Box 816 Stn. Main, 423 Main St., Winnipeg, MB R3C 2P5
Presented at the 3rd Canadian Barley Symposium, June 19-20, 2003 |
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This information published to the web on October 3, 2003.
Last Reviewed/Revised on November 10, 2009.
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