date:Nov 19, 2012
d animal consumption.
French quality was said to be good with 3.9Mt of the crop making malting and brewing grade, although with low premiums for malting use over feed, it is expected a proportion of malting barley will go for animal consumption.
Germany, which is usually a large importer of malting barley, produced a total 10.34Mt of barley this year (8.75Mt, 2011/12) and a greater proportion of this was malting quality. As a result, it is anticipated to import 0.3Mt of malting barley this yea