Sean Pratt

Sean Pratt

Reporter/Analyst

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Sean Pratt has been working at The Western Producer since 1993 after graduating from the University of Regina’s School of Journalism. Sean also has a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Saskatchewan and worked in a bank for a few years before switching careers. Sean primarily writes markets and policy stories about the grain industry and has attended more than 100 conferences over the past three decades. He has received awards from the Canadian Farm Writers Federation, North American Agricultural Journalists and the American Agricultural Editors Association.

Stories by Sean Pratt

Aerial view of the port of Chancay in Peru.
Markets, News, Tariffs

Geopolitics can change trade routes

Geopolitical tensions can lead to massive infrastructure projects that can shift global trade patterns

WHISTLER, B.C. — Today’s geopolitical tensions could have dire long-term consequences, says the director of international policy at the University of Calgary. History has shown that these kinds of tensions lead to massive infrastructure projects around the world that can shift global trade patterns. China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) was a response to similar […] Read more
Delegates mingle in the doorway of a large meeting room with a large "PSCC logo" and sign on the door at the annual Pulse & Special Crops Convention in Whistler, B.C., in September 2025.
Markets, News, Tariffs

U.S. market can’t easily be replaced

The North American agri-food supply chain is intertwined and would be very difficult to unravel

The deputy chief economist of Farm Credit Canada says 92 per cent of Canada’s total exports to the U.S. went into the country duty-free in June.
green lentils
Markets

Green lentil market oversupplied

The combined crop of five major lentil-growing nations is expected 40 per cent larger than last year’s

Farmers in Western Canada can expect price pressure on their new crop of green lentils, as the available supplies among the world’s major lentil-growing nations increase significantly.

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