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Victoria's Diverse Grain Crops: An Agricultural Overview

Explore the rich grain production in Victoria, including wheat, barley, canola, oats, lentils, chickpeas, and more. Discover the top grain export markets and the key end uses of these crops. This comprehensive guide sheds light on Victoria's thriving agricultural sector.

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Victoria's Diverse Grain Crops: An Agricultural Overview

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  1. Grains In Victoria – an overview Brian Kearns

  2. Victoria’s Grain Production Source: ABARES, 2014

  3. Victorian Grain Crops • Wheat – white, medium protein, mostly hard. • Barley – malting and feed • Canola – conventional, hybrid, high stability oil, herbicide tolerant… • Oats – hay, feed, milling

  4. Victorian Grain Crops Pulses • Lentils (mostly red, some green) • Field peas– kaspa type, dun type, blue, white • Chickpeas (kabuli & desi), • Faba & broad beans – large and smaller sizes

  5. Victoria’s top grain export markets, 2012-13 Total value: A$ 2.2 billion

  6. Grain end use Export End use Wheat 70% milling, feed Barley 50% malting, feed Canola 70% crushing Lentils 90+% dhal (split, whole) Chickpeas 90+% dhal, whole, dips Faba & broad beans 70+% foul, snack Field peas 50% dhal (splits) Oats <10% rolled Lupins<10% feed

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