Ron Storey has been appointed Chairman of the Australian Export Grains Innovation Centre (AEGIC) Board. Mr Storey, who has been an...
Wheat 2030: Anticipated trends in global consumption
Designing a flexible wheat classification system to cater to the increasingly diverse needs of wheat buyers at home and abroad is...
Horizons #48 – Saudi Arabia’s love affair with barley – Part Two
In Part One of this two-part series I explained some of the key factors underpinning Saudi Arabia’s long history of using barley for animal feed. Historically speaking, Australian barley has long dominated this market, however, due to a number of reasons the status-quo has recently been upended, effectively ending Australia’s dominance of the Saudi market for barley.
Horizons #47- Saudi Arabia’s love affair with barley (Part One)
The primary driver behind Saudi Arabia’s position as the largest global importer of feed barley, and importantly, as a key historical market for Australian barley exports, has been the Kingdom’s Bedouin tribes, who have long had a passion for barley as an animal feed.
Horizons #46 – Professor Bennett goes to Asia
The impacts of COVID-19 are affecting patterns of eating in Asian households, dampening demand for feed grains whilst maintaining demand for most food grains.
Horizons #45 – Under Bennett’s law is Australia a winner or loser?
Because Australian farmers mostly grow and export wheat sold mostly as a food grain rather than a feed grain, they are less affected by COVID-related global dietary change than grain producers in many competitor countries who mostly sell feed grains.
Horizons #44 – An old truth, rediscovered…
When you start citing a paper first published in 1941 and tell your colleagues why that paper still has relevance today, then don’t take umbrage if your colleagues start saying: Kingwell, you’re really showing your age!
“Australian wheat for premium Chinese noodles” virtual event
Chinese flour millers and noodle makers are being persuaded to use more premium Australian wheat for noodles, potentially creating...
New AEGIC test to examine the truth of whole grains
A new test for checking whole grain flour meets the official definition is now available to the Australian flour milling industry....