Consider season when pricing barley: Alberta analyst
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A provincial crop analyst with Alberta Agriculture and Forestry says crop marketers may consider seasonal price patterns as a factor when making their pricing decisions.
Neil Blue explains that, “Feed barley prices in Alberta are typically lowest during the harvest period and increase to steady, sometimes rising, prices during the winter and spring.”
Blue adds that during a typical growing season, barley prices usually decline into August as producers begin to empty their bins before harvest.
“Late in the crop year, some disappointed malt barley producers move barley supplies not accepted as malt grade into the feed market. Particularly in years of tight supply, feed barley prices remain strong in the summer until new crop barley becomes available.”
