HAMBURG, (Reuters) – German wheat exporters are seeking access to new markets including China, Mexico and Indonesia, an industry association said, following signals that Saudi Arabia is about to open up to imports from Russia. Saudi Arabia has been Germany’s biggest market for wheat exports in recent years, but German firms face much tougher competition after […] Read more
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Germany seeks new wheat export markets as Saudi opens to Russia
U.S. livestock dining on the finer things
U.S. farmers are feeding their livestock everything from outdated pet food and leftover bakery rolls to crops imported from South America after unprecedented spring planting delays boosted prices for locally grown corn. Corn is typically used to fatten hogs, cattle and poultry, but its high price has farmers in the $150 billion U.S. meat and […] Read more
China bought U.S. pork last week as Beijing declared halt in U.S. farm purchases
CHICAGO, (Reuters) – China made its biggest purchases of U.S. pork in seven weeks last week as Beijing said Chinese companies suspended purchases of American agricultural products, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture data issued on Thursday. The world’s largest pork consumer bought 10,211 tonnes of U.S. pork between Aug. 2-8 for shipment in 2019 as a […] Read more
Record grain throughput sets past grain year apart
Western Canada’s agricultural supply chain appears to be moving more grain and doing it more quickly and efficiently than ever, based on year-ending figures from the Canadian Grain Commission and the country’s two largest railway companies. According to the CGC, more than 40 million tonnes of cereals grains, pulses and oilseeds had been exported from […] Read more
Sask. potash mine cuts production
Poor demand for fertilizer caused by unprecedented wet weather in the American Midwest has prompted American fertilizer giant Mosaic to temporarily suspend potash production at its mine near Colonsay, Sask. The Minnesota-based company announced plans earlier this week (Aug. 7) to temporarily curtail production at Colonsay, effective Sept. 10. The decision means that close to […] Read more
Independent grocery grows
Canada’s three big grocery chains still account for half of the country’s retail food sales but others are nipping at their heals, according to a new report. Loblaws/The Real Canadian Superstore had a 23.6 percent share of the industry’s US$96.6 billion in sales in 2018, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Foreign Agricultural Service. […] Read more
Nutrien sees corn comeback in 2020
WINNIPEG, Man. (Reuters) — Fertilizer producer and farm supply dealer Nutrien Ltd. expects American farmers to plant as many as 95 million acres of corn next year, the most in seven years, after a frustrating year of floods, its chief executive said. The wet conditions left millions of acres unplanted across the United States farm […] Read more
U.S. ag hurting from floods, trade
In Brief CHICAGO (Reuters) – U.S. farm incomes in the Midwest and Mid-Southern states declined yet again in the second quarter of 2019, as record floods devastated a wide swath of the Farm Belt, according to banker surveys released on Thursday by the Federal Reserve Banks of St. Louis and Kansas City. Nearly two-thirds of […] Read more
AG Notes
FMC welcomes new directors Farm Management Canada received 13 nominations for four available board positions. Annessa Good, a beef producer from Alberta was elected to the young farmer position. Dr. Derek Brewin, head of the Department Agribusiness and Ag Economics at the University of Manitoba was elected to the academic institution position. Andrea Gal, managing […] Read more
Fall armyworm a ‘major threat’ to Chinese crop output
BEIJING, China (Reuters) — Agriculture officials in northern China’s Shandong province warned July 30 that an infestation of the fall armyworm pest will spread further in the key corn-producing area, posing a major threat to crop output in the region. The insect has already caused damage in some areas in Shandong, China’s third-largest corn producer […] Read more
