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File photo of a wheat field in India. (Sahil Ghosh/iStock/Getty Images)

India sells record 1.4 million tonnes of wheat in April

Sales surge on unavailability of Black Sea supplies

By GFM Network News May 11, 2022

New Delhi | Reuters — India exported a record 1.4 million tonnes of wheat in April, four trade sources said, providing some relief to grain markets as buyers scramble for alternatives to Black Sea supplies hit hard by the war in Ukraine. April is the first month of the fiscal year. India, the world’s second […] Read more

Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau walks with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in Kyiv on May 8, 2022. (PMO photo by Adam Scotti via Reuters)

Crops, Markets, Reuters

Trudeau pledges help for Ukraine to find options to export grain

Turkey's co-operation seen as important, Joly says

By GFM Network News May 10, 2022

Kyiv | Reuters — Canada will help Ukraine work out options on how to export stored grain to address global food security that has been shaken by Russia’s invasion of the country, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said late on Sunday. Nearly 25 million tonnes of grains are stuck in Ukraine, unable to leave the country […] 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

Ukraine calls for moves to unblock ports, prevent global food crisis

Russia has mounted a blockade of Ukrainian ports

By GFM Network News May 10, 2022

Kyiv | Reuters — Ukraine’s president called on the international community on Monday to take immediate steps to end a Russian blockade of his country’s ports to allow wheat exports and prevent a global food crisis. President Volodymyr Zelenskiy made his comments in an online post after speaking to European Council President Charles Michel, who […] Read more

Viktor and Sergiy Shipov say they’ll harvest a crop this year, despite the challenges from the war. (Photo: Ihor Pavliuk/Oleksandr)

Crops, Machinery, Weather

Farming behind the lines: Growers in Ukraine plant amid hostilities close by

'We started the sowing campaign by removing rockets from the field'

By GFM Network News May 9, 2022

Viktor and Sergiy Shipov are used to adversity. Viktor established a farming company in southern Ukraine 20 years ago, in the Mykolaiv Oblast, where hellish heat and lack of rainfall can make the land look like the Sahara Desert with yellow dunes. This is a corner of the classic Ukrainian steppe, where rainfall is very […] Read more

Nutrien’s Patience Lake potash facility, about 15 km east of Saskatoon. (Nutrien.com)

Crops, Reuters

Nutrien may further raise potash output as sanctions curb other supplies

By Tom Polansek, GFM Network News May 3, 2022

Chicago | Reuters — Canada’s Nutrien, the world’s largest fertilizer company, is weighing further increases to potash production as sanctions continue to limit shipments from Russia and Belarus, interim CEO Ken Seitz said on Tuesday. Prices of crop nutrients such as potash have skyrocketed as sanctions against Russia for its invasion of Ukraine have disrupted […] Read more

Here in Canada, the war caused a shakeup on the board of directors at Buhler Industries, the parent company of Winnipeg-based Versatile (shown above) and Farm King, with the removal of Konstantin Babkin, a public supporter of the Russian action.

Equipment, Machinery

Machinery brands comply with global sanctions against Russia

All major equipment brands suspend shipments to Russia and Belarus

By Scott Garvey April 26, 2022

As virtually the entire western world has moved to hold Russia accountable for its invasion of Ukraine, significant economic sanctions have been levied against the country and its accomplice state, Belarus. The sanctions have significantly isolated the two nations from much of the global economy. That includes cutting them off from western agricultural equipment. CNH […] Read more

Major exporter wheat production in 2022 is expected to increase by only two million tonnes.

Editor's column, Wheat & Chaff

Editor’s Column: War, weather and wheat markets, Part 2

By Kari Belanger April 25, 2022

In my last column, I wrote about how world wheat markets are being affected by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the Prairie weather outlook and planting conditions. In this column, written on April 6, I’d like to look at the overall wheat outlook. As I mentioned in my last column, generally, wheat prices have strengthened […] Read more

A drought-hit cornfield at Nao-Me-Toque in Brazil’s Rio Grande do Sul state on Jan. 9, 2022. (Photo: Reuters/Diego Vara)

Corn, Crops, Markets, Soybeans

CBOT weekly outlook: Traders look to skies for market guidance

By GFM Network News April 20, 2022

MarketsFarm — Much of the focus from the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) for the week ended Wednesday has shifted away from besieged Ukraine — and toward areas closer to home. Prices for nearby corn and soybean contracts rose over the past week due to weather-related rallies, but wheat prices held rangebound. The U.S. northern […] Read more

File photo of wheat being loaded onto a bulk vessel at port in Russia. (YGrek/iStock/Getty Images)

Crops, Markets, Reuters

U.S. says sanctions on Russia don’t affect humanitarian aid, ag exports

By Reuters, GFM Network News April 19, 2022

Washington | Reuters — The United States on Tuesday took steps to make clear that U.S. sanctions imposed on Russia over its invasion of Ukraine do not stand in the way of humanitarian assistance and agricultural and medical exports, among other support. The U.S. Treasury Department in a fact sheet outlined that Americans can engage […] Read more

A farm worker unloads Ukrainian-made fertilizer from a truck on April 5, 2022 to use on a wheat field near the village of Yakovlivka, outside Kharkiv, after it was hit by an aerial bombardment. (Photo: Reuters/Thomas Peter)

Crops

Farming behind the lines: Ukraine’s farmers sow amidst wreckage

Despite their best efforts, however, famine looms as war rages

By GFM Network News April 19, 2022

In early April, Ukrainian soldiers expelled the Russian invaders from the northern regions of Ukraine: Kyiv, Chernihiv and Sumy regions. The wounded enemy left, leaving behind burned-out war machines and the unburied corpses of his soldiers. However, the invaders managed to do a lot of damage. Many of you are probably aware of the atrocities […] Read more

GFM Network News

Canadian agriculture must be seen as growth sector: Blois

Chicken, eggs benefit from demand for economical protein

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India sells record 1.4 million tonnes of wheat in April

Trudeau pledges help for Ukraine to find options to export grain

Ukraine calls for moves to unblock ports, prevent global food crisis

Farming behind the lines: Growers in Ukraine plant amid hostilities close by

Nutrien may further raise potash output as sanctions curb other supplies

Machinery brands comply with global sanctions against Russia

Editor’s Column: War, weather and wheat markets, Part 2

CBOT weekly outlook: Traders look to skies for market guidance

U.S. says sanctions on Russia don’t affect humanitarian aid, ag exports

Farming behind the lines: Ukraine’s farmers sow amidst wreckage

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