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India extends crop fumigation exemption until year-end

By Reuters June 30, 2018

Reading Time: < 1 minute Paris/Mumbai | Reuters — India has extended by six months to the end of 2018 an exemption to its policy for crop cargoes to be fumigated with methyl bromide, a move that should facilitate continued imports of pulses and wheat. The Indian government has issued a letter announcing the exemption would be extended to Dec. […] Read more

Corn, Crops, Markets, Soybeans

CBOT weekly outlook: Soybeans should benefit as China lifts tariffs

By Dave Sims June 27, 2018

Reading Time: 2 minutes CNS Canada — The $9 a bushel mark seems like a distant memory for soybeans as import tariffs between China and the U.S. continue to sap buying interest in the crop. China buys roughly 60 per cent of the United States’ annual soy exports — and there’s no telling when or how that shortfall will […] Read more

Ripe soybeans near Morden, Man. on Sept. 14, 2017. (Allan Dawson photo)

Crops, Reuters, Soybeans

China drops import tariffs on feed ingredients from Asian neighbours

By Dominique Patton, Josephine Mason June 27, 2018

Reading Time: < 1 minute Beijing | Reuters — China on Tuesday said it would remove import tariffs on animal feed ingredients including soybeans from five Asian neighbours, in a sign that Beijing wants to boost foreign supplies of the commodities as a trade dispute with the U.S. escalates. The Ministry of Finance said it would drop tariffs on soybeans, […] Read more

Chickpeas. (CalypsoArt/iStock/Getty Images)

Crops, Markets, Pulses

Pulse weekly outlook: Canadian exports face market changes

By Ashley Robinson - MarketsFarm June 26, 2018

Reading Time: 2 minutes CNS Canada — After a year in which Canada’s largest pulse buyer, India, imposed import tariffs, Canadian pulse crops are seeing a shift in export dynamics. Lentil and pea exports in Canada are down this year compared to last. According to data from the Canadian Grain Commission, as of June 17, lentil exports were at […] Read more

Crops, Lentils, Markets

Pulse weekly outlook: Lentil crop prospects look good, market down

By Ashley Robinson - MarketsFarm June 20, 2018

Reading Time: 2 minutes CNS Canada — The western Canadian lentil crop is looking good, which has buyers in no rush to lock in contracts. “The crop is germinating well and so (buyers are) not really anxious or worried about having product available in this coming crop year,” said Marlene Boersch, of Mercantile Consulting Venture. Thursday’s crop report from […] Read more

Crops, Reuters

With deal to close this week, Bayer to retire Monsanto name

By Ludwig Burger June 4, 2018

Reading Time: 2 minutes Frankfurt | Reuters — Germany’s Bayer will wrap up the US$63 billion takeover of Monsanto on Thursday and also retire the U.S. seed and chemical firm’s 117-year-old name. The German drugmaker had received all required approvals from regulatory authorities, it said in a statement on Monday. “Bayer will remain the company name. Monsanto will no […] Read more

Chickpeas. (Grigorenko/iStock/Getty Images Plus)

Crops, Markets, Pulses

Pulse weekly outlook: Large U.S. crop possible, despite reduced acres

By Phil Franz-Warkentin May 23, 2018

Reading Time: 2 minutes CNS Canada — Farmers in the U.S. may have planted fewer pulse acres in 2018 compared to the previous year — but the reduction was likely not as large as forecast by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. A return to average yields would also still result in big supplies overall, after poor crops in 2017, […] Read more

A Flipkart office in Bangalore in 2014. The e-commerce company, founded in 2007, began by selling books and has now branched out into a wide range of products. (VasukiRao/iStock/Getty Images)

General, Markets, Reuters

Some Indian trader, farmer groups decry Walmart’s Flipkart deal

By Aditi Shah, Manoj Kumar May 10, 2018

Reading Time: 3 minutes New Delhi | Reuters — A day after U.S. retail giant Walmart struck its largest deal with a big ticket investment in Indian online marketplace Flipkart, a right-wing Hindu group that fears small traders will suffer staged a protest in New Delhi calling for the deal to be scrapped. Walmart said on Wednesday it would […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Pulses

Pulse weekly outlook: Saskatchewan acreage ideas hold firm

By Phil Franz-Warkentin May 2, 2018

Reading Time: 2 minutes CNS Canada — Disruptions in marketing to India may have cut into prices for peas and lentils over the past year, but farmers in Saskatchewan did not shift their pulse acreage intentions for 2018 all that much according to the results of Statistics Canada’s latest survey, released Friday. Saskatchewan farmers intend to seed 2.171 million […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Peas

Confusion surrounds India’s latest pea import curb

By Lisa Guenther April 27, 2018

Reading Time: 2 minutes The fine detail in the announcement of a new cap on pea imports into India has led to new uncertainty over whether the cap applies to yellow peas, or all peas. India’s commerce and industry ministry announced Wednesday that pea imports between April 1 and June 30 this year are now restricted to a total […] Read more

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India extends crop fumigation exemption until year-end

CBOT weekly outlook: Soybeans should benefit as China lifts tariffs

China drops import tariffs on feed ingredients from Asian neighbours

Pulse weekly outlook: Canadian exports face market changes

Pulse weekly outlook: Lentil crop prospects look good, market down

With deal to close this week, Bayer to retire Monsanto name

Pulse weekly outlook: Large U.S. crop possible, despite reduced acres

Some Indian trader, farmer groups decry Walmart’s Flipkart deal

Pulse weekly outlook: Saskatchewan acreage ideas hold firm

Confusion surrounds India’s latest pea import curb

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