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Brazil moves into top spot in world corn export market
Corn growers in the United States are not relinquishing their crown just yet. Brazil is taking over as the world’s top corn exporter in 2022-23, for only the second time in history. The previous year was 2012-13 when there was a severe drought in the U.S. Brazil’s exports in 2022-23 are estimated at 56 million […] Read more
Lentil shipments to Turkey expected to shrink
Soaring interest rates and a bigger crop will likely dampen the country’s appetite for imported lentils this year
Turkey’s big lentil crop and growing financial woes are going to hurt shipments to Canada’s top market, says a Turkish processor of the crop. Growers in that country planted more acres than last year, and yields appear to be about 25 percent higher, said Tuba Memis, general manager of Memisoglu Tarim-TAT, one of the largest […] Read more
Ukraine grain exports reduced by ‘difficult logistics’
In an opinion piece published on APK-Inform, Christina Serebryakova, head of analytics at Atria Brokers, said the country is having difficulty competing with other exporters due to "extremely difficult logistics."
Barley exports slow, but ahead of ’22
Canadian barley exports slowed in January, but out-of-country movement is still running ahead of the year-ago pace, according to updated export data from the Canadian Grain Commission. Canada exported 131,100 tonnes of barley from licensed facilities in January, with China the top customer taking 100,500 tonnes. Total barley exports were well off the 344,500 tonnes […] Read more
Sask. ag exports to Mexico skyrocket
Saskatchewan’s annual exports to Mexico have exceeded $1 billion for the first time. Trade surpassed $1.02 billion in 2022, thanks to increased sales of canola oil, canola seed and non-durum wheat, the province said in a Feb. 23 news release. Canola seed made up nearly 55 percent of total exports to Mexico last year with […] Read more
Canola exports, soy oil and meal all affect canola’s price
We are a little more than halfway through the crop year and it looks like exports and domestic use of major crops are on pace to reach the forecasts set out in Agriculture Canada’s monthly supply and demand outlook. Later on, I’ll also look at developments in soybean oil and meal markets, but first, let’s […] Read more
Canada exports rose in October helped by weak dollar
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada’s exports rose in October, largely driven by pharmaceutical products, while imports were also up, largely as a result of a depreciation of the Canadian dollar, data showed on Tuesday. The country’s trade surplus with the world grew to $1.21 billion in October, Statistics Canada said, slightly above analysts’ forecasts of a surplus of […] Read more
Feds set up Indo-Pacific ag trade office
In June, groups representing Canada’s canola, grain and pulse industries asked the federal government to open an agriculture and agri-food trade office in Asia. Six months later, the government is doing just that. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meeting in Bangkok, Thailand, announced today that Canada expects to spend $31.8 […] Read more
Regulatory reform will boost productivity: Poloz
Canada needs to take steps to address its poor productivity performance, says the former governor of the Bank of Canada. The country has been at the low end of the pack of advanced nations on that crucial metric for the past 20 years. “In fact, a recent OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development) study […] Read more
