Triticale is useful as an animal feed grain. Poultry production relies on imports of feed grain from the United States. The export comprise malting barley, feed grain and bread grain, rapeseed and rapeseed oil. As a feed grain, triticale is already well established and of high economic importance. For its meat production, however, Estonia relied heavily on feed grain from Russia. Barley is the principal feed grain in Canada, Europe, and in the northern United States.