Barley exports pick up speed in the EU countries

The EU-28's barley exports last week reached 135,000 tonnes, building on the comparatively large deliveries in September 2020 after it had become somewhat quieter at the beginning of October. The large delivery volume to Saudi Arabia, which is once again the top of the barley receiving countries, has a particular impact. After all, Saudi Arabia has received 1.03 million tons so far, or 41 percent of all third country deliveries. China, Morocco and Tunisia have not received any new barley deliveries from the EU in the past few weeks, only a significant amount of 24,500 tons still went to Algeria. Since the beginning of the marketing year, the EU-28 has exported almost 2.5 million tons of barley to third countries, 14 percent less than in the same period of the previous year. While EU wheat exports were still comparatively brisk at the end of September and the beginning of October at over 500,000 tonnes per week, the third country business with common wheat slowed down significantly ...