The barley could repeat the surface implemented in the 2024/25 campaign
Apparently, The increase in planted area that is expected with wheat in the 2025/26 campaign will not have a correlation with barley: Experts estimate a repetition of the area implemented in the 2024/25 campaign. According to the Fidel Cortese consultant, a planted area of 1- 1.2 million hectares could be reached, which could give a production of 4.7 to 5.2 million tons according to climate evolution.If a harvest of 4.9 million tons was completed, for example, the beer barley could reach 2.3-2.4 million tonsclimate through, and would be consumed by practically the same halves between malterías and export as grain, mainly to Brazil. It would be the rest that is exported as fodder, less a remnant of 400. 000 tons for seed and forage consumption of drums and feedlotsThis behavior would be a consequence of the prices that buyers will offer soon. According to Cortese, in the South Buenos Aires, the value of the fodder barley could be calculated from the price of the fodder – around 180 dollars per ton – with a plus of 20 or 30 dollars per ton.The sum would give a price similar to that of the wheat, with the advantage of the greatest yield of the barley and earlier unemployment of the lot, according to the consultant Mario Cattáneo. It also exhibits the virtue of being able to surrender with 14% moisture versus 12.5% of the brewery and has no germination or varietal purity demands. The expected prices for beer barley would be between $ 205 and $ 210 per ton and 170-180 for foragethe latter very dependent on the evolution of Trump's tariffs. “If the commercial war was complicated, the United States could stop exporting sorghum to China, which would have to acquire it in the northern region of our country, and complement it with barley in the ports of Necochea and Bahía Blanca,” projects these estimated prices, these estimated prices, The barley would give a good gross margin in its own field and more adjusted in rented fields. If good yields are not obtained from the second soybean. The Fidel Corte consultant explains that the world beer market is stagnant: “It fell hard for the pandemic and then recovered, but without reaching the previous levels, due to the progress of the Gin, Vodka and Fernet.”
