France & Germany & UK: Barley consumption for malt almost unchanged in France and UK , Germany’s malt production up by 8.9% in 2007/2008

Barley consumption for malting in France was 1.441 mln tonnes in July/June 2007/08 versus 1.497 mln tonnes in the previous year, according to the recently published malt production statistics.

Germany’s malt production in July/June amounted to 1,894,900 tonnes versus 1,739,800 last year, it is reported. Wheat malt production reached 90,600 tons vs. 89,800 in 2006/07.

United Kingdom used 1.5 mln tonnes of barley for malting during July/May 2007/2008 – 0.9% more than last year.

Total EU malt exports in the first month (July) of the new crop year were 140,000 tons, which is below the licence bookings figure of July 2007, experts said.

10 October, 2008