Here is some news for you, You can grow barley for China if you wish, You can quake in your boots, look in the mirror and see a coward, wash your mouth with listerine to get rid of the taste from kissing chinese arse and be chewing gum on murderous commo shoes. But Australia doesnt have to grow low value low margin barely crops for China. The China who kow towed to Trump when he stood up to the bullies and bought millions of tonnes of US course grains, where fertile soil and reliable high rainfall produce huge yeilds of low value crops. America can get back to growing their most profitable crops instead of dry climate wheat, And Australia will do as it always has done stand up to bullies, and grow what is in demand and most profitable. India pulled the same stunt with Lentils and got a blood nose from little old Australia . Stock went to Pakistan and Barley was sown. Now India have no Lentiils to buy and failed to grow enough and the price they have to pay is double, but the small crop that was grown is going tp Pakistan. Australia can go back to planting pulse crops and wheat, recent advances in pulse breeding mean pulses give much greater yeild, disease and constraints resistance. and can be much more profitable than barley. Some idiotic comments from here suggesting we should be grow barley for China under cohersion and fear, BullSHit!!. To say it will end the Barley market is also bullshit people who say that have no idea how markets work, people, will still eat meat drink beer, if china buys froom somwhere else it will leave a vacum som-where. If the greenies are right there will be global grain shortages, especially with the banning of some chemicals that make grain growing viable in some countries. Grain prices have been rising, grain producing land has increased in value by 31% in the last 12months, stats last week, because grain stocks are falling and population is increasing.
