Canada: Barley acreage expected to decline 8% this year

Canadian farmers across almost all provinces report that they intend to seed less barley in 2017, Statistics Canada said on April 21.

The acreage is expected to decline 8% to 5.9 million acres nationally.

As for wheat, reported intending to seed 23.2 million acres of all varieties of wheat in 2017, relatively unchanged from the area seeded in 2016. Western producers, accounting for 95% of this acreage, are expecting only a slight increase of 0.4% overall, to 22.0 million acres.

24 April, 2017