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Australia’s grain-marketing season concluded at the end of September, and with last week’s release of that month’s export data by the Australian Bureau of Statistics came the twelfth and final chapter of the nation’s 2023-24 grain-export dossier.

Australian grain growers looking for clues about China's subdued demand are pointing to record Chinese domestic production as a reason for the slowdown. A report from the official Chinese government news agency Xinhua late last month said total Chinese grain production would exceed 700 million tonnes for the first time. If realised, that figure would be 0.7 per cent higher than last year's crop of 695.4m tonnes. While there is occasionally industry scepticism regarding official releases on Chinese grain stocks, the numbers are being backed up by their import demand. The Chinese government has embarked on an ambitious food security project in recent years, focusing on ag-tech and varietal improvements to bolster productivity. Across the country, exporters are reporting slower sales to China. "Barley is very slow at present, China is such an important market for Australian barley and they aren't very active just at present so that is having an impact," said Robinson Grain Trading g

A new project from the Australian Export Grains Innovation Centre (AEGIC) is being launched to provide the wheat industry with the latest objective insights into wheat quality preferences in Southeast Asia, the most valuable wheat export region for Australia.