Of this, over 90 per cent was produced in Western Canada. Most regions in Western Canada produce a net surplus of barley after local feed use, seed use and malting barley selection.
Surpluses are available for exports.
However, some regions consume significantly more barley than they produce, due primarily to high livestock concentration. These regions draw feed barley shipments from net surplus regions. This issue of the Bi-weekly Bulletin examines domestic feed barley flows within Western Canada. Production Barley is well-suited to production in Western Canada relative to corn, which dominates global feed grain production. Barley is high-yielding, matures earlier and is a good rotation crop for wheat.