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CF Industries is one of the world’s biggest nitrogen fertilizer producers and competes against Russian imports. Photo: Thinkstock

U.S. fertilizer imports helping fund Russian war effort, CF Industries says

By Rod Nickel May 3, 2024

Reuters – U.S. agriculture companies have been brisk importers of Russian fertilizer since the 2022 Ukraine invasion, a practice that is unwittingly helping fund Russia’s war against Ukraine, U.S. producer CF Industries CF.N said on Thursday. The U.S. does not impose sanctions directly on Russian fertilizer, which is important to global food supplies and prices. […] Read more

File photo of barley being loaded off the combine. (Collab Media/iStock/Getty Images)

General, Reuters

EU plans to hit Russia, Belarus grain imports with tariffs

Commission aims to curb Russian income, prevent market distortions, placate farmers

By Reuters, GFM Network News March 22, 2024

The European Commission proposed on Friday imposing tariffs on imports of grain from Russia and Belarus in an attempt to prevent Moscow and its ally from distorting EU markets and placate farmers who have protested for months over cheap imports.

Louis Dreyfus’ oilseed processing plant at Yorkton, Sask. (LDC.com)

General, Reuters

Louis Dreyfus withstands commodity price drop to post stable profits

While less chaotic than 2022, war and weather continued to disrupt supply last year

By GFM Network News March 21, 2024

Louis Dreyfus Company's (LDC) profits last year held close to the bumper levels of 2022, with the agricultural commodity giant saying its global trading network helped it withstand falling prices.

FILE PHOTO: Polish farmers protest over price pressures, taxes and green regulation, grievances shared by farmers across Europe and against the import of agricultural produce and food products from Ukraine near the Polish Ukrainian border crossing in Dorohusk, Poland, February 18, 2024. Jakub Orzechowski/Agencja Wyborcza.pl via REUTERS/File Photo

General, Reuters

Polish farmers backtrack on unblocking Ukraine border crossing, PAP reports

Protesting farmers say they will block Slovakia border against Ukrainian, Russian goods until end of month

By Reuters, GFM Network News March 13, 2024

Polish farmers increased the number of trucks they let through the Dorohusk border crossing with Ukraine on Wednesday but backpedaled on a promise to unblock it completely, state news agency PAP reported on Wednesday.

Trucks wait for crossing into Poland at the Rava-Ruska border checkpoint in Ukraine’s Lviv region on April 17, 2023. (Photo: Reuters/Roman Baluk)

General, Reuters

Poland may ban Russian agricultural imports, says PM Tusk

Latvia has already implemented a ban

By Reuters, GFM Network News February 29, 2024

Poland doesn't rule out introducing a ban on agricultural products from Russia, the prime minister said on Thursday during a visit to Warsaw by his counterpart from Latvia, which has already implemented such a ban.

Liberia-flagged bulker K Sukret, carrying grain under the Black Sea Grain Initiative, waits for inspection in the southern anchorage of Istanbul on May 17, 2023. (Photo: Reuters/Mehmet Emin Caliskan)

General, Reuters

Zelenskiy says Black Sea grain corridor in doubt without US aid

Conservative Republicans in US House of Representatives threatening to block further military aid

By Reuters, GFM Network News February 27, 2024

New York | Reuters -- Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Monday that without new U.S. military aid his country would be unable to defend a Black Sea shipping corridor that has allowed Kyiv to export millions of tons of grain to global markets.

Traders are seen focusing on a handful of key countries including Brazil, India, the U.S. and China to gauge the global urea market.

Crops, Features, Markets

Get urea booked sooner rather than later, trader says

Farmers will want to lock in supplies before seasonal demand kicks in

By Glacier FarmMedia staff, Robert Arnason February 21, 2024

Glacier FarmMedia – The global urea market is in a period of mixed signals. Buyers in Australia and Southeast Asia made purchases in early January, putting upward pressure on prices. Plus, stocks in North America are relatively low, which is also supportive. On the other side of the coin, China may delay exports until the […] Read more

A man is seen outside the house damaged by Russian shelling, Odesa Region, southern Ukraine. (Photo by Nina Liashonok/Ukrinform/Sipa USA)

General

What is war fatigue?

If the West is 'tired' of the war in Ukraine, consider the reality of Ukrainians

By GFM Network News January 17, 2024

As we approached the end of December, my mood, like that of most Ukrainians, was not at all Christmassy. The heroic achievement of 2022, when our lives hung in the balance and our defenders managed to repel the enemy, was replaced by the bloody routine of 2023.

File photo of a bulk vessel at a port grain terminal at Constanta, Romania. (Sergii Zhmurchak/iStock/Getty Images)

General, Reuters

Romanian farmers, truck drivers protest near border with Ukraine

Grievances include influx of Ukrainian goods, fuel costs, environmental measures

By Reuters, GFM Network News January 15, 2024

Bucharest | Reuters -- Hundreds of Romanian farmers and truck drivers protested near border crossings with Ukraine and near large cities across the country on Monday amid ongoing negotiations with the government over high business costs.

General, Reuters

Ukraine’s Dec Black Sea food exports top U.N.-brokered deal at its peak

Kyiv believes it has managed to dislodge Russian forces from the western part of the Black Sea

By Reuters, GFM Network News January 10, 2024

Ukraine exported 4.8 million metric tons of food via its Black Sea corridor in December, surpassing the maximum monthly volume exported under a previous U.N.-brokered grain deal, brokers said on Wednesday.

GFM Network News

U.S. grains: Soy futures pull back as Brazil harvest advances

McDonald’s, Cargill fund youth councillor position with Canadian Roundtable for Sustainable Beef

U.S. livestock: Cattle rise, hogs fall as traders watch other commodities

Tag Archives Russia

U.S. fertilizer imports helping fund Russian war effort, CF Industries says

EU plans to hit Russia, Belarus grain imports with tariffs

Louis Dreyfus withstands commodity price drop to post stable profits

Polish farmers backtrack on unblocking Ukraine border crossing, PAP reports

Poland may ban Russian agricultural imports, says PM Tusk

Zelenskiy says Black Sea grain corridor in doubt without US aid

Get urea booked sooner rather than later, trader says

What is war fatigue?

Romanian farmers, truck drivers protest near border with Ukraine

Ukraine’s Dec Black Sea food exports top U.N.-brokered deal at its peak

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