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November 2001 Edition

Smaller Canadian Grain Crops Create Opportunities for U.S. Corn

Two bar graphs demonstrating that Smaller Canadian Grain Crops Create Opportunities for U.S. Corn: Wheat and coarse grains exports since 1997 (left); and year-to-year percentage change in exports since 1998 (right)

Canada's normal role as a major wheat and coarse grain exporter will be diminished this year because of poor harvests, and that will affect global trade patterns in wheat, barley, oats, and corn. Australian and European malting barley exports are expected to face much less competition from sharply lower Canadian export sales.

Tight supplies of Canadian quality milling oats have already helped push U.S. oats futures prices to the highest levels in more than 10 years. This may prompt imports from nontraditional countries and more EU sales at zero subsidy. Robust feed grain demand, combined with poor coarse grain crops, will lead Canada to import record levels of corn from the United States.


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General Footnotes for Grain Tables

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