By: Chuck Penner / LeftField Commodity Research While we still don’t know just how small the Canadian barley crop will end up, expectations have dropped sharply over the growing season. Early on, it looked like the 2021 crop could easily be well above last year but those hopes had already started to fade by mid-June. […]
Canadian barley outlook makes a U-turn Only a few short weeks ago it looked like the Canadian barley market would be heavy with supplies. A 10% jump in acreage with an average yield should have meant the biggest crop since 2008. Unfortunately, that scenario is now off the table and Canadian barley supplies next year […]
Global Barley crops mostly (but not all) favourable It’s natural to focus mainly on crops close to home. That’s especially the case for barley, since a good portion of the crop is used within western Canada. Still, one of the lessons from 2020/21 is that the export market was the reason why barley prices hit […]
Outlook Clouded by Lack of Transparency There’s always plenty of uncertainty in grain markets; that’s a given. Of course, the biggest unknown comes from the weather, even with meticulous forecasting models. That’s why asking someone to predict prices six months, a year or two years down the road either ends up as lucky guesswork or […]
Barley market report updates Crop moving to next stage of market cycle Even though fresh supplies of barley won’t show up in Western Canada for a few months, the bull market of 2020/21 is already running out of steam, as it had to at some point. All the same factors that pushed barley prices to […]
Big news! We are funding approximately $1 million in new barley research Earlier this month we announced we are funding another approximately $1 million of barley research (more than $2.3 million including in-kind and other support) over the next four years – a major advancement for barley producers in Saskatchewan. This funded research is the […]
A good news month By Jason Skotheim, SaskBarley Chair I hope you are all having a good month. Overall, it’s good news to date for barley harvest and quality. As of September 21, 72% of the Saskatchewan barley harvest was completed, according to Saskatchewan Agriculture. This is well ahead of the average for the past […]
