Our own estimate of domestic feed use by commodity: barley, wheat, durum, oats and Canadian and US corn, for Western Canada (MB, SK, AB, BC) and Eastern Canada (Ontario, Quebec and the Atlantic provinces). Built from the demand side, livestock numbers and slaughter times feeding rates, split across grains by price and availability, and compared with StatCan.
Three steps: animals set how much grain energy is needed; price and availability split it across grains; corn is then split into Canadian-grown and US imports.
Thousand tonnes of barley-equivalent grain per crop year
Thousand tonnes per crop year (corn: Sep–Aug). Marker: the western corn crop.
Thousand tonnes per crop year (corn: Sep–Aug). Marker: the Ontario and Quebec corn crop.
Thousand tonnes per crop year. Bars: the model, West and East; marker: StatCan's "animal feed, waste and dockage".