The Observer: Australian Malting and Brewing Sustainability: What is the Supply Chain Expecting?
In recent newsletters I placed a focus on sustainability as most in the Brewing supply chain are making pledges to move their operations onto a…
The Observer – Australian Grain Conferences: Sustainability Now a Key Program Topic
As the Australian winter crop planting window closes in June each year and the early assessment of crop development begins, the Australian grains industry gathers…
The Observer – Sustainable Aviation Fuel: Opportunity and pressure for Agriculture
In response to Government and Corporate carbon gas emission reduction targets, the pace of innovation within industry sectors is accelerating. The electricity and vehicle sectors…
The Observer – Australian Malting Barley: Does it Have a Future…
The 12th RMI Analytics conference was held in Rome on the 5th – 8th March 2024. With the global malt supply chain under one roof,…
The Observer – Carbon: Creating a New Paradigm in Pricing
International treaties, the first signed at the Rio Earth Summit 1992, and policy drivers such as the COP/MOP meetings, have driven the establishment of global…
The Observer – Exports to China Back in Full Swing
Following the Chinese Ministry of Commence’s announcement on the 4th August 2023 that the PRC was removing all tariffs on Australian barley; export trade of…
The Observer – Canal Chaos or Calm – Suez and Panama Operations Impacted By Conflict and Drought
With Red Sea Commercial shipping attacks by Houthi rebels in mid December threatening access to the Suez Canal and drought in Panama Canal limiting shipping…
The Observer – Mexico – Australia’s Largest Malt Barley Market
The Mexican brewing market has had an incredible period of growth in recent years and is now the fourth largest beer producer in the world.…
The Observer – Malteries Soufflet Closes the UMG Deal and Becomes the World’s Largest Maltster
The Australian Stock exchange were advised that the acquisition of all ordinary shares in the Australian malting group, United Malt Group (UMG), by Malteries Soufflet…
The Observer – Grains Industry Tops Australian Agriculture
The latest Rural Bank’s Australian Agricultural Exports report illustrates the sector’s export value reached a record A$80 billion in 2022/23, almost 50% above the 5-year…