Acknowledgements: Quality of western Canadian barley in 2023

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We gratefully acknowledge the following people and organizations for their help in the preparation of this report.

• Domestic grain handling and malting companies provided composite samples of barley varieties selected for malting in 2023. These include Canada Malting Ltd., Cargill Ltd., Boortmalt, Malteurop Canada Ltd., Rahr Malting Canada Ltd., Richardson International and Viterra Inc.
• Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada’s National Agroclimate Information Services Unit provided the weather and climate data.
• Seeding and production figures came from Statistics Canada Table 32-10-0359-01.
• Shawn Parsons conducted barley analyses and micro-malting; Debby Kelly performed malt analyses; Anna Chepurna, Shin Nam and Cherianne McClure performed various chemical and instrumental analyses.
• Sarah Ormiston of the Multimedia Section of the Corporate Information Services, Canadian Grain Commission did the design and assembly of this publication.