Quality of western Canadian barley in 2024: Acknowledgments

ISSN 1182-4417

We gratefully acknowledge the following people and organizations for their help in the preparation of this report.

• Domestic grain handling and malting companies provided composite samples of barley varieties selected for malting in 2024. These include Canada Malting Ltd., Cargill Ltd., Boortmalt, Malteurop Canada Ltd., Rahr Malting Canada Ltd., Richardson International and Viterra Inc.
• Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada’s National Agroclimate Information Services Unit provided the weather and climate data.
• Seeding and production figures came from Statistics Canada Table 32-10-0359-01.
• Shawn Parsons conducted barley analyses and micro-malting; Debby Kelly performed malt analyses; Arzoo Sharma, Shin Nam and Cherianne McClure performed various chemical and instrumental analyses.
• Margaret Gowdar and Sarah Ormiston of the Communications and Multimedia Sections of the Corporate Information Services, Canadian Grain Commission.