Only about 12 percent of global oat production is exported. Canada only produces 13.5 percent of the world’s oats, but it has a 67 percent global market share of traded product. The U.S. next door is the largest import market.  The EU produces nearly a third of the world’s oats but is a very minor exporter. Russia is increasingly the global supplier of grain, and at 17 percent of global supplies it is the second largest producer of oats behind the EU. It is the third largest exporter of oats but only has a 7.3 percent market share. Like Canada, Australia is an outsized trader, producing just 5.6 percent of the world’s oats, but supplying 16.7 percent of traded product.  The problem is that overall demand for fo...

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