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CBOT May 2022 wheat (candlesticks) with 20-, 50- and 100-day moving averages (yellow, orange and dark green lines). (Barchart)

U.S. grains: Ukrainian export woes support markets

U.S. winter wheat 30 per cent good-excellent

By Christopher Walljasper April 5, 2022

Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicago | Reuters — U.S. wheat, soybean and corn climbed on Monday, underpinned by disrupted supplies of Black Sea grains as the conflict in Ukraine continues, while attention shifts to U.S. production. Chicago Board of Trade most-active wheat ended 25-3/4 cents higher at $10.10-1/4 a bushel (all figures US$). Soybeans added 19-1/2 cents to $16.02-1/4 […] Read more

The Kharkiv Tractor Plant assembly line, during more peaceful times. (Kharkiv Tractor Plant photo)

General, Machinery

Farming behind the lines: Hostages of globalization

By Ihor Pavliuk April 4, 2022

Reading Time: 5 minutes Imagine — even if it looks unrealistic — that one day Canada will be cut off from the rest of the world. And all import deliveries to the country will be possible, for example, only through Alaska, only by trains along one route. It sounds absurd, but Ukraine, in the very heart of Europe, is […] Read more

CBOT May 2022 soybeans (candlesticks) with 20- and 50-day moving averages (yellow and green lines). (Barchart)

Crops, Markets, Reuters

U.S. grains: Soybeans hit one-month low on record acreage view

Chicago corn futures, MGEX wheat up

By Julie Ingwersen March 31, 2022

Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicago | Reuters — U.S. soybean futures fell to their lowest in a month on Thursday after the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) projected farmers would plant the most acres on record to the oilseed this spring while reducing corn acres. Corn futures rose on the acreage outlook, with the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Pulses

Pulse weekly outlook: Market uncertainty all around

By Adam Peleshaty March 29, 2022

Reading Time: 2 minutes MarketsFarm — As Russia’s invasion of Ukraine continue to swing markets up and down, typical issues and other external factors have amplified volatility in the pulse markets, according to one trader. David Newman, owner of Commodius Trading at North Saanich, B.C., explained that while the conflict in Eastern Europe is affecting markets everywhere, the usual […] Read more

Crops, Reuters

Ukraine sunseed area seen falling due to war

By Reuters March 25, 2022

Reading Time: < 1 minute Lviv | Reuters — The area sown to sunflower in Ukraine is likely to fall to 4.81 million hectares (11.89 million acres) in 2022 from 6.66 million hectares in 2021 due to hostilities in many regions, the agriculture ministry said on Friday. Ukraine is the world’s largest sunflower seed grower and sunflower oil exporter. The […] Read more

Parts are already in short supply in Ukraine, and farmers are stockpiling and lending and borrowing amongst themselves. (Ihor Pavliuk photo)

Crops, Machinery

Farming behind the lines in Ukraine

A Ukrainian agriculture journalist chronicles the challenges of sowing a crop during wartime

By Ihor Pavliuk March 18, 2022

Reading Time: 5 minutes 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 Monday. This was a column of tractors, under the flag of Ukraine. In it were farmers […] Read more

CBOT May 2022 wheat (candlesticks) with MGEX May 2022 spring wheat (yellow line) and K.C. May 2022 hard red wheat (orange line). (Barchart)

Crops, Markets, Reuters

U.S. grains: May wheats limit-down as peace talks progress

Chicago corn, soybeans also lower

By Christopher Walljasper March 17, 2022

Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicago | Reuters — U.S. wheat futures fell by their daily maximum on Wednesday as investors weighed whether talks between Ukraine and Russia could lead to a ceasefire in the three-week-long war, while rain forecast in the U.S. Plains eased concerns about parched crops. Corn ended lower as the talks between Moscow and Kyiv tempered […] Read more

File photo of a wheat field in northern Ukraine on July 14, 2016. (File photo: Reuters/Valentyn Ogirenko)

Crops, Reuters

Ukraine to start spring seeding in coming days, officials say

By Reuters March 14, 2022

Reading Time: < 1 minute Lviv | Reuters — Ukraine plans to start sowing spring grains in the coming days and has enough grain in stocks to ensure the population has enough bread, deputy agriculture minister Taras Vysotskiy said Saturday. He said the country, which consumes eight million tonnes of wheat a year, had six million tonnes in stocks. Stocks […] Read more

Anti-tank ‘hedgehogs’ are seen in Maidan Nezalezhnosti Square in Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, on March 9, 2022. Farmers are among those assembling the obstacles, set up to block roads against advancing armoured vehicles. (Yevhen Kotenko/Ukrinform/Abacapress.com via Reuters)

Crops

Bread and war: Farmers in the fight for Ukraine

Agriculture, being the most important industry in Ukraine, will play a large part in the war, a Ukrainian ag journalist writes

By Ihor Pavliuk March 10, 2022

Reading Time: 5 minutes It is very difficult to explain what a person feels when they’re awakened at 5 a.m., when a rocket explodes near their house. That’s exactly what I experienced Feb. 24. The first thing I did was fill my car with gasoline. Then we bought a lot of products we thought we might need — medicines […] Read more

Crops, Markets

CBOT weekly outlook: Wheat futures in a war trading scenario

By Phil Franz-Warkentin March 3, 2022

Reading Time: < 1 minute MarketsFarm — Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has roiled grain and oilseed markets, with the unprecedented situation likely to lead to volatile and choppy activity in wheat, corn and soybean futures for the time being. Chicago and Kansas City winter wheat contracts have posted the largest gains in response to the conflict, with the closure of […] Read more

Daily Network News

Trump tells farmers that tractor companies should lower prices

Get farmers in on federal water security strategy planning, CFA says

U.S. finalizes biofuel blending quotas for 2026-27, cuts RINS for foreign feedstocks

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