On top of the Brexit, new agricultural policy, tackling the climate emergency and the general lack of farm profitability, concentration of power in the supply chain has been a growing worry in the sector. And the recent shock news that one of the countries long-established grain merchants, Alexander Inglis and Son, had gone into administration has only added to the
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Dan Carey, brewmaster and cofounder of Wisconsin’s New Glarus Brewing, doesn’t like recipes that simply call for “pale malt” without specificity. Nor does he like it when people describe base malt as “a blank canvas.” American craft beer came of age when the barley varieties available were bred for the big brewers. They emphasized mash efficiency and enzymatic power for
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VIETNAMESE grain customers are showing strong interest in using more clean, green and nutritious Australian barley in animal feed rations. The Australian Export Grains Innovation Centre (AEGIC) recently hosted two separate technical webinars for Vietnam’s feed industry – focusing on pigs and dairy – as part of an ongoing campaign that started in 2016 to stimulate demand for Aussie feed
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