China has been the market for 86pc of Australian sorghum exported in 2021-22. Photo: Pioneer
AUSTRALIA exported 875,107 tonnes of malting barley, 7,196,296t of feed barley and 2,242,473t of sorghum in 2021-22 (Oct-Sep).
The figures have come to light following the recent release of Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) export data for September.
For malting barley, September exports fell to a low for the 2021-22 year of 41,870t, with Vietnam on 32,942t showing up as the only full bulk cargo for the month.
September feed barley exports at 662,421t hit a monthly high for the back half of the shipping year, as did shipments to Saudi Arabia on 335,543t.
Saudi on 3.2Mt for the year has been the market for close to half of Australia’s 2021-22 feed barley exports, with Japan on 1Mt the only other seven-digit market for the year.
On sorghum, China was again the major market by far in September, with 219,073t shipped for the month to take the total 2021-22 to 1.9Mt, or 86 per cent of the annual total.
The shipping year has seen Mexico on 317,238t emerge as the biggest market for Australian malting barley, and India pop up as a fledgling market for Australian feed and malting barley now that some phytosanitary issues have been resolved.
The following tables may contain discrepancies due to rounding.
| MALTING | Oct-Dec | Jan-Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jly | Aug | Sep | Tonnes |
| Ecuador | 0 | 6000 | 5149 | 0 | 0 | 6000 | 4992 | 0 | 22142 |
| Ethiopia | 50776 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 50776 |
| Indonesia | 510 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 510 |
| India | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 483 | 0 | 483 |
| Japan | 3502 | 21000 | 496 | 978 | 22637 | 1251 | 0 | 250 | 50114 |
| Kuwait | 0 | 0 | 33000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 33000 |
| Mexico | 33000 | 96299 | 33000 | 63000 | 0 | 30000 | 61939 | 0 | 317238 |
| New Zealand | 100 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16000 | 0 | 16100 |
| Peru | 29423 | 21500 | 17851 | 0 | 0 | 15900 | 13268 | 0 | 97941 |
| Philippines | 1706 | 3335 | 200 | 994 | 640 | 931 | 1403 | 961 | 10170 |
| Singapore | 10181 | 11299 | 3976 | 3096 | 4264 | 2841 | 5907 | 3663 | 45227 |
| South Korea | 0 | 0 | 397 | 397 | 20417 | 397 | 669 | 1400 | 23678 |
| Thailand | 5468 | 6029 | 1030 | 2172 | 2306 | 442 | 881 | 2655 | 20983 |
| Vietnam | 2382 | 67664 | 44288 | 1566 | 2053 | 35302 | 549 | 32942 | 186745 |
| TONNES | 137048 | 233126 | 139387 | 72204 | 52317 | 93064 | 106092 | 41870 | 875107 |
Table 1: Australian malting barley exports from 1 October 2021 to 30 September 2022. Source: ABS
| FEED | Oct-Dec | Jan-Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jly | Aug | Sep | Tonnes |
| Canada | 0 | 33000 | 33000 | 29962 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 95962 |
| Ecuador | 13947 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6000 | 19947 |
| Hong Kong | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 12 | 72 |
| India | 435 | 495 | 0 | 0 | 323 | 670 | 0 | 0 | 1923 |
| Iran | 0 | 33533 | 32467 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 66000 |
| Japan | 297785 | 169828 | 95066 | 100332 | 135959 | 77000 | 61357 | 131166 | 1068493 |
| Jordan | 63000 | 323000 | 81800 | 32200 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 500000 |
| Kuwait | 81733 | 118984 | 0 | 123916 | 0 | 67795 | 13819 | 72613 | 478861 |
| Macau | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Malaysia | 725 | 442 | 0 | 2 | 276 | 0 | 0 | 200 | 1645 |
| Mexico | 31576 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 31576 |
| Myanmar | 0 | 242 | 230 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 472 |
| Netherlands | 0 | 41749 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 41749 |
| New Caledonia | 994 | 472 | 216 | 198 | 0 | 197 | 392 | 307 | 2775 |
| New Zealand | 5800 | 5000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6337 | 16000 | 7195 | 40332 |
| Oman | 34767 | 0 | 0 | 11000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 45767 |
| Papua New Guinea | 300 | 25 | 25 | 0 | 50 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 400 |
| Peru | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16533 | 16533 |
| Philippines | 231176 | 150105 | 825 | 14271 | 1721 | 10870 | 1869 | 50401 | 461237 |
| Qatar | 110050 | 76800 | 52500 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 52500 | 0 | 291850 |
| Saudi Arabia | 748319 | 833280 | 238749 | 209234 | 266132 | 222718 | 322659 | 335543 | 3176635 |
| Singapore | 802 | 1204 | 2 | 976 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 2992 |
| South Korea | 18294 | 2317 | 904 | 1550 | 520 | 713 | 400 | 0 | 24699 |
| Spain | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 14 |
| Taiwan | 9821 | 13006 | 3583 | 3694 | 2160 | 1283 | 667 | 832 | 35045 |
| Thailand | 66137 | 32193 | 1007 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 99357 |
| UAE | 54130 | 85779 | 32450 | 43137 | 9871 | 39322 | 17437 | 39541 | 321666 |
| Vietnam | 130391 | 31453 | 45755 | 15146 | 66076 | 71000 | 8388 | 2075 | 370284 |
| TOTAL | 1900203 | 1952919 | 618591 | 585631 | 483089 | 497953 | 495489 | 662421 | 7196296 |
Table 2: Australian feed barley exports from 1 October 2021 to 30 September 2022. Source: ABS
| SORGHUM | Oct-Dec | Jan-Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jly | Aug | Sep | Tonnes |
| China | 415171 | 196374 | 187921 | 221532 | 310244 | 174950 | 200108 | 219073 | 1925373 |
| Fiji | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Japan | 44190 | 200 | 43 | 33021 | 89010 | 69500 | 21 | 21 | 236006 |
| Malaysia | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 24 |
| New Caledonia | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| New Zealand | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18075 | 0 | 18075 |
| Philippines | 4057 | 4565 | 2229 | 2904 | 2647 | 2397 | 2739 | 3102 | 24640 |
| South Korea | 48 | 86 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 159 |
| Taiwan | 5504 | 2018 | 2872 | 2959 | 6453 | 4336 | 500 | 7316 | 31958 |
| Tanzania | 0 | 0 | 4308 | 1710 | 0 | 0 | 45 | 0 | 6063 |
| UK | 0 | 0 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 24 |
| Vietnam | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 50 | 0 | 0 | 50 |
| TOTAL | 468994 | 203243 | 197422 | 262127 | 408454 | 251233 | 221488 | 229512 | 2242473 |
Table 3: Australian sorghum exports from 1 October 2021 to 30 September 2022. Source: ABS
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