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Organic Alberta Stakeholder Teleconference -- May 10, 2017

This teleconference discusses the organic grain supply and demand in Alberta, focusing on market demand, production supply, and imports/exports. It explores the existing demand, the capacity of organic end-users to increase production, the role of imports, and the challenges in acquiring Canadian organic data. The speaker also highlights the profitability of cereal crops in the current market.

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Organic Alberta Stakeholder Teleconference -- May 10, 2017

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  1. Organic Alberta Stakeholder Teleconference -- May 10, 2017 Stuart McMillan - M. Sc, P. Ag Understanding Organic Grain Supply and Demand:   The Current Situation

  2. Caveat

  3. Three Factors • Market Demand • Production Supply • Imports/Exports

  4. There remains significant uptapped demand Existing organic end-users have the capacity to ramp up their production.

  5. Canadian Organic Acreage

  6. CDN organic acreage also includes existing organic operations growing larger Some buyers have said they don’t feel there has been as large of an increase in acreage and producers relative to requests More organic operations regardless

  7. Role of Imports • Canadian Data difficult to acquire or non-existent. • No HS Codes specific for organic in Canada • US has started gathering GATS data • Imports & Exports – value and volume

  8. April USDA Organic Price Report

  9. “We have gone through periods like this where some crops have not been profitable in the past and farmers, because they have to produce or plant something on that land, the best of those options sort of gets planted and I think this is probably something that’s going to happen this year for cereal crops because there is really no cereal crop that stands out as a really big money-maker,”

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