The U.S. Grains Council held its annual meeting in Salt Lake City last week. The expiration of Australian barley tariffs had North Dakota Barley Council Chairman Nathan Boll particularly excited. “We were seeing more and more Australian barley flow into Mexico and now that that tariff’s gone, we’re seeing our normal flow patterns again so that bodes well for US raw barley and malt.” Boll also identified a return in U.S. barley demand in overseas markets. “Pre-COVID we had an up-and-coming program to get food barley into Southeast Asia. When COVID hit, that demand just went to zero. We’re starting to see some shipments of food barley again and of course, that’s where the population is at.”
