A Black Sea market research firm almost doubles forecast for March wheat shipments despite North American pessimism
Russia is shipping wheat like gangbusters despite many reports to the contrary. North American grain analysts indicate Russia’s exports have essentially been shut down by the war in Ukraine. They say shipping lines are no longer servicing Russian ports and insurance costs have climbed so high that it is not economically feasible for the world’s […] Read moreTag Archives Ukraine war — page 17
Ukraine’s ability to produce and export canola crop in doubt
Most of the agricultural news surrounding the war in Ukraine revolves around wheat and corn, but another important crop could also be affected. Ukraine is the world’s third largest exporter of canola behind Canada and Australia. War has placed the country’s 2022 crop in jeopardy despite it being seeded in the winter before the outbreak […] Read more
Ukrainian farmers will seed crop in war zone
Ihor Pavliuk is an agricultural journalist who lives in Ukraine. This is his first-person account of the challenges of sowing a crop during wartime. Ukrainians will farm their land, even in the face of war. In the Kherson area of southern Ukraine, where war rages and the city of Kherson is seen by the Russian […] Read more
Spring seeding progress remains up in the air in Ukraine
Seed and fertilizer stocks are rumoured to be sufficient to get a crop in the ground, but fuel supplies are less certain
Ukrainian farmers are optimistic that they will begin spring planting on schedule, says the head of a respected agricultural consulting firm based in Kyiv. But plantings of some crops, most notably corn, could be considerably reduced because of the Russian invasion in the country’s eastern regions, where most of Ukraine’s annual 13 million to 13.5 […] Read more
Tech company says Russian seeding on schedule
Spring seeding operations are on track in Russia, but shaky in Ukraine. This information comes from Olga Uskova, founder and chief executive officer of Cognitive Pilot, a high-tech company in Moscow. For the 2021 harvest, autonomous Cognitive Agro Pilot systems were installed on demo combines in the United States, Russia, Brazil, Argentina, Austria, Italy, Kazakhstan […] Read more
Food input tax rollback urged
The ripple effects of Russia’s war in Ukraine are starting to be felt in Canada. Energy prices, commodity markets and fertilizer costs, which were already rising before Russia’s invasion, are expected to soar. Alberta is trying to stem rising energy prices by cutting the provincial fuel tax starting next month but it might be just […] Read more
Ukrainian farmers determined to seed crop in a war zone
Ukrainians will farm their land, even in the face of war. In the Kherson area of southern Ukraine, where war rages and the city of Kherson is seen by the Russian invaders as strategic, a column set out on March 14. This was a column of tractors, under the flag of Ukraine. In it were […] Read more
War may not cause wheat acres to jump
A 50 to 60 percent increase in global wheat prices might not be enough to entice growers in Western Canada to plant a lot more of the crop this spring, according to some farmers and analysts. “For me, I won’t be changing anything, and I’d say that’s probably 75 percent of farms,” said Stephen Vandervalk, […] Read more
China warns of serious wheat setback
Analysts find it puzzling the Chinese government would announce ‘crop conditions this year could be the worst in history’
Amid market turmoil caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the world’s biggest wheat producer just announced it may be harvesting its worst crop in history. Tang Renjian, China’s minister of agriculture and rural affairs, recently told reporters that heavy rainfall and flooding in fall 2021 delayed the seeding of about one-third of the country’s winter […] Read more
War introduces uncertainties to pea market
Russia is expected to produce the world’s second largest pea crop this year, but it’s unclear if it will be able to find buyers
The world’s second largest pea producer is waging a war that could damage its ability to export the product. Russia is forecast to produce 2.63 million tonnes of the pulse crop in 2022, second only to Canada’s 3.49 million tonnes, according to Stat Publishing. That would be a big rebound for both countries after harvesting […] Read more
