Buying and Selling Barley

Buying Alberta Barley

Under the Alberta Barley Plan Regulation, buyers purchasing Alberta-grown barley from producers must deduct check-off dollars from their payment to producers and remit the funds to the Commission.  Check-off dollars for barley are collected and remitted at a rate of 50 cents per metric tonne. On August 1, 2009 this rate was increase to $1.00.   

It is illegal in Alberta to withhold these funds. Producers, however, may request a refund of their check-off dollars.

Check-off dollars are the Commission’s sole source of ongoing revenue.  These funds are invested in research, marketing, and poilcy activities to improve the value of barley, both for the growers and their customers.

This can mean higher yields for producers or higher average daily gains per bushel fed for a feeder.  Improved disease resistance can result in the higher bushel weights and plumper kernels desired by the feeding industry. 

For more information on how the cheque-off dollars benefit the feed industry, read the Feed Chain newsletter.

For the Alberta Barley Commission's regulations, click here.

Information for Barley Dealers

All buyers of Alberta barley require a Barley Dealer License. 

If you are a dealer of barley and do not have a license please complete and return the Barley Dealer License Application form.

If you are a dealer of barley and need to renew your license please complete and return the Barley Dealer License Renewal form.

Monthly Check-Off Remittance

Barley dealers are to remit check-off dollars they have collected to the Commission on a monthly basis.  Funds are remitted to the Commission along with the following forms:

Monthly Remittance Summary

Monthly Remittance Report

Licensed Alberta Barley Dealers

The following is a list of dealers who are licensed to purchase barley grown in the province of Alberta. 

If you are a licensed barley dealer and you would like to have your business infomation listed below, please contact Jamie Kasper, Accounting Assistant at 403-219-6260 or jkasper@albertabarley.com

Canadian Grain Commission

The Canadian Grain Commission maintains a list of all of the elevators and grain dealers who are licensed by the Canadian Grain Commission.  Click here to access the list from the Canadian Grain Commission’s website.

As a requirement of the Canada Grain Act, elevators and grain dealers must be licensed by the Canadian Grain Commission. As a condition of licensing, an elevator or grain dealer must provide security to the Canadian Grain Commission. This security is used to compensate producers in the event they are not paid for the grain they deliver to the licensed company.