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StatCan releases satellite crop vegetation data

By GFM Network News June 10, 2022

MarketsFarm — Statistics Canada’s crop condition assessment program (CCAP) on Thursday released its weekly normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) values from April 11 to May 29 — telling the tale of weather extremes in the Prairie provinces. As of the fourth week of May, seeding was 95 per cent complete in Alberta, compared to the […] Read more

Green lentils. (Alexey Shipilov/iStock/Getty Images)

Crops, Lentils

Pulse weekly outlook: Lentils planted, now it’s wait-and-see

By GFM Network News June 7, 2022

MarketsFarm — As planting of lentils on the Canadian Prairies has pretty much wrapped up for 2022, prices have been holding firm, according to Colin Young of Midwest Grain Ltd. at Moose Jaw. “In pulses right now, this is the naturally quiet time of the year. We’re ramping old-crop into new-crop,” Young said. “Prices are […] Read more

Keefer Terminal (foreground) at the Port of Thunder Bay. (PortOfThunderBay.ca)

Crops, Markets

Thunder Bay grain shipments down on year through two months

By GFM Network News June 4, 2022

MarketsFarm — Grain shipments through the Port of Thunder Bay are running well behind normal through the first two months of the 2022 shipping season, according to a release from the port. However, potash movement through the port is up considerably, with inbound shipments of general cargo also strong. Grain shipments through the end of […] Read more

File photo of Black Sea port facilities at Odesa, Ukraine. (Leskas/iStock/Getty Images)

Crops, Markets, Reuters

U.N. aid chief in Moscow to discuss Ukraine grain exports

Russia says will guarantee grain vessels' safety

By GFM Network News June 3, 2022

Reuters — U.N. aid chief Martin Griffiths is in Moscow on Thursday and Friday to discuss clearing the way for exports of grain and other food from Ukraine’s Black Sea ports, a U.N. spokesperson said. Griffiths will meet Russian officials days after another senior U.N. official, Rebecca Grynspan, had “constructive” talks in Moscow with Russian […] Read more

File photo of barley being loaded for export at the Black Sea port of Mykolaiv, Ukraine on July 9, 2013. (Photo: Reuters/Vincent Mundy)

Crops, Markets, Reuters

U.N. had ‘constructive’ talks in Moscow on Russian grain, fertilizer exports

U.S. could offer 'comfort letters' to shippers, insurers

By GFM Network News May 31, 2022

United Nations | Reuters — A senior U.N. official had “constructive discussions” in Moscow with Russian First Deputy Prime Minister Andrei Belousov on facilitating Russian grain and fertilizer exports to global markets, U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said on Tuesday. The U.N. official, Rebecca Grynspan, is now in Washington for talks on the same issue “with […] Read more

Pinto beans. (Vergani_Fotografia/iStock/Getty Images)

Crops, Pulses, Weather

Pulse weekly outlook: More rainfall turns into more seeding delays

By GFM Network News May 31, 2022

MarketsFarm — After southern Manitoba had experienced ideal seeding conditions for most of the previous week, another round of rains created another round of headaches for pulse growers on Monday. “Last week, there were a few dry beans planted here in southern Manitoba. (There was) a lot of prep work being done. Things were really […] Read more

Cargo ships are docked in Ukraine’s Black Sea port of Odesa on Nov. 4, 2016. (File photo: Reuters/Valentyn Ogirenko)

Crops, Markets, Reuters

Kremlin says Putin ready to facilitate grain exports via Ukraine ports

Russia says will work with Turkey

By GFM Network News May 30, 2022

London | Reuters — President Vladimir Putin said Monday that Russia was ready to facilitate the unhindered export of grain from Ukrainian ports in co-ordination with Turkey, according to a Kremlin readout of talks with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan. Besides the death and devastation sown by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the war and the West’s […] Read more

Yara’s fertilizer terminal at Stockton, California. (Sebastian Braum photo, Yara.com)

Crops, Reuters

Fertilizer maker Yara says world faces extreme food supply shock

Sanctions cut global fertilizer supply 15 per cent, company says

By GFM Network News May 27, 2022

Davos, Switzerland | Reuters — Norwegian fertilizer giant Yara says donors urgently need to close the U.N.’s $10 billion food programme funding gap to avoid a catastrophe as sanctions on Russian fertilizers and Ukraine’s grain export problems have created an extreme global shock. “The world has realized that food can be a weapon and it […] Read more

File photo of a lentil crop before harvest in Saskatchewan. (Bobloblaw/iStock/Getty Images)

Crops, Pulses

Pulse weekly outlook: AAFC projects normal yields, increased pulse production

By GFM Network News May 25, 2022

MarketsFarm — A return to yields closer to long-range averages will result in greater production for most pulse crops in 2022-23, according to Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada’s monthly outlook for principal field crops released last Friday. Many of the projections are based on the assumption that normal weather conditions will return to most of the […] Read more

Workers fill jerrycans with cooking oil at a distribution station in Jakarta, Indonesia on May 20, 2022. (Photo: Reuters/Willy Kurniawan)

Crops, Markets, Reuters

Food crisis fuels fears of protectionism compounding shortages

By GFM Network News May 24, 2022

Davos | Reuters — A growing world food crisis is precipitating protectionist moves by countries which are likely to compound the problem and could lead to a wider trade war, business leaders and policymakers at the World Economic Forum said. In a sign of the escalating squeeze on food supplies and rising prices, a government […] Read more

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Pulses

StatCan releases satellite crop vegetation data

Pulse weekly outlook: Lentils planted, now it’s wait-and-see

Thunder Bay grain shipments down on year through two months

U.N. aid chief in Moscow to discuss Ukraine grain exports

U.N. had ‘constructive’ talks in Moscow on Russian grain, fertilizer exports

Pulse weekly outlook: More rainfall turns into more seeding delays

Kremlin says Putin ready to facilitate grain exports via Ukraine ports

Fertilizer maker Yara says world faces extreme food supply shock

Pulse weekly outlook: AAFC projects normal yields, increased pulse production

Food crisis fuels fears of protectionism compounding shortages

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