Western Canadian corn Imports

[rain]

Charlie excluding the current year do you have any idea how much corn Alberta imports over the last 5-10 years.

[charliep]

I will have to dig. Not a lot though with uses mainly for human food (corn tacos, etc.), adjuncts in beer, distilling, etc. Some may have also been used in high energy rations like poultry and some dairy. None in the cattle industry.

[charliep]

Hopefully this pastes okay but here is a table with the US corn import numbers. A note is that imports are recorded where the corn clears the border versus where it is consumed. Some of the SK./MB. volumes have been consumed in Alberta.

Corn Imports into Alberta and Western Canada (metric tonnes)
Crop yearManitobaSask.AlbertaB. C.W Canada
1998/1999197,91245,72933,58844,328321,557
1999/2000246,59578,54716,89817,653359,693
2000/2001171,476100,09365,86927,777365,215
3 year avg.205,32874,79038,78529,919348,822

2001/2002 *317,125220,070448,33037,8601,023,385

* Aug. 2001 to Feb. 2002 only Crop year: Aug-July

Source: Statistics Canada
Prepared by the Statistics and Data Development Unit, AAFRD