Australia caps off stellar grain export year

previous season came a rebound in the total export volume of the four major commodities — wheat, barley, sorghum and canola — although canola shipments did let the team down, lagging the previous season’s total. Total exports, bulk and containerised, of the big four in the 2024-25 season ended up at 39.62 million tonnes (Mt), up from 35.87Mt the previous season. This is Australia’s third-highest export volume on record, behind the 47.76Mt shipped in 2022-23 and the 43.22Mt exported in 2021-22. Unsurprisingly, China was the biggest destination with 9.42Mt, or 23.79 percent of the nation’s total grain export volume. However, this did drop from 11.81Mt or 28.97pc of the 2023-24 program. China’s imports of barley were almost unchanged at 6.03Mt, equivalent to an average of 500,000t per month. The volume of sorghum increased by just over 400,000t to 2.34Mt. Wheat was the big loser, falling 72pc, or 2.7Mt, from 3.76Mt to just 1.05Mt on the back of a significant drop in total Chinese ...