The depletion of Canada's oat supplies has handed a larger share of the vital US market to the EU in 2002/03 Blighted by way of a lethal combination of aridity grasshoppers.

The depletion of Canada's oat supplies has handed a larger share of the vital US market to the EU in 2002/03

Blighted by way of a lethal combination of aridity grasshoppers, frost and unseasonal rains, last year's Canadian oat cut off has been insufficient to replenish oat store ups which were run down in 2001/02

With 2002/03 carry-in stocks of just 365 000 tonnes and production of 275 million tonnes, total availability has not been adequate to hang in succession to US markets which usually ne no providers other