Saudi confirms purchase of 25 cargoes of feed barley.

Saudi Arabia completed negotiations with suppliers overnight for its tender to buy barley. The buying agency announced it had purchased just over 1.5 million tonnes of feed barley. And the contracts will specify optional origin- South America, EU, Black Sea and Australia. Australia shipment volume of barley in the 2016-17 marketing year was added by competitive pricing and reduced current year exports from EU, Argentina and Black Sea origins.