EconomicsAustralia Canada USA: Price rises: Oil, cocoa, now barley

Montreal Gazette (Mar7,2k11)

Barley shortages could have 

beer drinkers crying in their suds

BY BRADLEY BOUZANE, POSTMEDIA NEWS AND REUTERS MARCH 7, 2011 7:02 PM

• STORY
• PHOTOS ( 1 )

Flooding lowered the quality of the latest barley crops in Canada and Australia, leaving some unsuitable to turn into malt, the germinated barley product used in beer.

Photograph by: Daniel Munoz/Reuters, Daniel Munoz/Reuters

Some commodities 

experiencing price rises

(click individual commodities below)

Barley    Cocoa 

Coffee - Vietnam, Kenya, Uganda,

               Brazil - Columbia 

Oil - Shale Gas - Canada  Tar sands oil 

         Eurozone 

         OPEC - US Strategic