UK Grain Exports

Customs data reveals that the UK exported 233,000 MT of wheat and 39,900 MT of barley during May 2009.

For the first eleven months of the 2008/09 marketing year the UK has now exported 3.27 MMT of wheat, with the vast majority (3 MMT) going to fellow EU countries. That is well ahead of the same point in the previous 2007/08 season when exports totalled 1.41 MMT.

Barley exports in the same July08/May09 period came to 776,000 MT, more than double the amount exported at the same time in 07/08.

Rapeseed exports during July08/May09 came to 227,000 MT.