News Articles - Barley
EU Export Update: Sorghum Leads the Way
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- Published on Friday, 25 March 2011 11:26
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A combination of high ingredient prices and aggressive U.S. Grains Council marketing efforts is producing renewed sales of U.S. sorghum, corn gluten feed (CGF), and distiller’s dried grains with solubles (DDGS) into the European Union (EU).
Sorghum shipments, primarily bound for Spain, with smaller shipments to France and the Netherlands, stood at 458,000 metric tons (18 million bushels) as of March 10. Outstanding sales totaled an additional 223,000 tons (8.8 million bushels).
USGC Keeps Keen Eye on Valued US Customer
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- Published on Friday, 18 March 2011 17:15
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The U.S. Grains Council is keeping a close eye on its largest corn and second-largest barley and sorghum market as it begins its recovery process from the earthquake and subsequent tsunami that devastated eastern Japan last week.
While no official reports on total grain trade impact have been made known to the Council, major importing facilities in northern mainland Japan have been severely damaged by the natural disaster, causing some to be not operational for the time being. The affected area accounts for roughly 30 percent of Japan’s 25 million metric ton total compound feed production capacity. While the extent of actual damage is still being assessed, much of the damaged capacity is being covered
Barley Business Grows with Trusted Contacts
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- Published on Friday, 11 March 2011 19:43
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Malting barley producers in Montana’s Golden Triangle increased their contracted acres with a Mexican brewery seven-fold this past week, entering the fourth year of a business relationship begun from simple introductions. This continuing, open-ended arrangement will be formally renewed during the brewer’s spring visit to the growers’ fields about 100 miles north of Great Falls, Mont.
Benefits Still Flowing from 2010 Export Exchange
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- Published on Friday, 04 March 2011 16:40
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The U.S. Grains Council continues to reap benefits from last year’s highly successful Export Exchange 2010 meeting in Chicago – and the ultimate winners are U.S. grain producers and overseas grain consumers.
A discussion between Moroccan and Tunisian feed grain users that began at Export Exchange 2010 has now led one of Morocco’s largest feed grain importers to send top officials to study operations at Tunisia’s Medimix feed company and Chahia poultry company.
USGC Officer Mission Explores Opportunities in India
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- Published on Friday, 28 January 2011 19:46
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An emerging middle class numbering nearly 200 million people backed by continued strong economic growth – anticipated to be 8.8 percent this year – is raising food security concerns within India, according to U.S. Grains Council leaders who were on the Council’s Officers Mission to India this week.
