By Commodity News Service Canada
June 27 (CNS Canada) – As of June 18, Canada has exported 10.766 million tonnes of barley this crop year, which compares to 9.201 million tonnes during the same period in 2016. That’s a 17.8 per cent year-on-year increase, but forecasters expect the year to close with a 5.8 per cent increase over 2016.
– Canadian exporters have shipped 10.576 million tonnes of oats during the same period, for a 22.5 per cent increase (forecasting a 12.2 per cent increase at the end of the crop year) and 32.804 million tonnes of peas have been shipped for a 41.5 per cent increase compared to this time last year (32.5 per cent increase forecast at year end.)
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By Commodity News Service Canada Winnipeg, Jan. 19 (CNS) – Following are a few highlights in the Canadian and world…
– US corn exports as of June 15 were at 46.630 million tonnes, compared to 32.413 million tonnes as of the same week a year ago. US barley exports were at 24,000, compared to 19,000 at the same week a year ago.
Alberta Agriculture released the data as part of its weekly crop market review for week number 46 of the crop year
– Russian grain stocks are up about 31 per cent as of June 1, compared to the same period last year, based on data from the Russian statistics agency, grain analyst UkrAgroConsult has reported.
Russian grain stocks held on farms, grain handling companies or at processors amounted to 18.5 million tonnes.
Wheat stocks were 22.3 per cent higher at 7.7 million tonnes, with 1.9 million tonnes of that rated as non-milling grade.
Russian barley stocks were up 24 per cent to 947,000 tonnes and corn stocks were 1.080 million tonnes, Ukr AgroConsult said.
The agency also reported that export prices for Ukrainian new crop barley continued to rise last week with an average increase of US$3 per tonne for July-August delivery.
– Buhler Insect Technology plans to build its first animal nutrition plant to process black soldier flies.
In a partnership with Protix, the insect feed plant in the Netherlands is expected to be operational in the early part of 2018.
Switzerland-based Buhler and Protix established Buhler Insect Technology in January and set up a small pilot plant to serve as a scalable blueprint for future projects.
The new plant would be the largest industrial-scale insect processor in Europe.
“With this first industrial insect protein production plant we will make an important step towards a more sustainable global food and feed value chain,” Andreas Aepli, chief executive officer of Buhler, said in a news release.
