Insights and Stories on Exports

Tightening supplies likely to underpin chickpea market

May. 11, 2022 at 1:07 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — Tightening worldwide chickpea supplies could bode well for prices later this year, although Canadian acres will likely be down and there’s still a long growing season ahead. Canadian farmers intend to seed 175,200 acres of chickpeas in 2022, which would be down 5.5 per cent from the previous […]

India sells record 1.4 million tonnes of wheat in April

May. 11, 2022 at 9:13 am CDT

By Mayank Bhardwaj rajendra-jadhav

U.S. grains: Chicago grains firm after planting-inspired decline

May. 10, 2022 at 5:47 pm CDT

By Christopher Walljasper

Trudeau pledges help for Ukraine to find options to export grain

May. 9, 2022 at 7:49 pm CDT

By Tom Balmforth

Ukraine calls for moves to unblock ports, prevent global food crisis

May. 9, 2022 at 7:25 pm CDT

By Pavel Polityuk

Worsening global food security needs Ukraine, Russia production, UN chief says

May. 4, 2022 at 8:07 pm CDT

Abuja | Reuters — U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Wednesday the problem of global food security could not be solved without restoring Ukrainian agricultural production and Russian food and fertilizer output to the world market. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February has added to volatility in financial markets, sending commodity […]

By Felix Onuah

U.S. grains: Corn eases despite slow U.S. plantings

May. 3, 2022 at 5:14 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago corn futures fell on Tuesday after initial gains, pressured by demand uncertainty despite adverse weather delays to U.S. planting progress, analysts said. Recent rainfall also pressured wheat, despite declining crop conditions, while soybeans moved lower on expectations of increased plantings if corn seedings continue to […]

By Christopher Walljasper

U.S. livestock: CME lean hogs drop to January lows

May. 3, 2022 at 5:00 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — CME lean hog futures on Tuesday dropped to their lowest prices since January on technical selling and concerns about risks to demand for U.S. meat, brokers said. U.S. pork exports to China have tumbled this year as Chinese producers rebuild their herds after outbreaks of the […]

By Tom Polansek

Heat wave threatens India’s wheat output, export plans

May. 2, 2022 at 10:32 pm CDT

New Delhi | Reuters — India’s wheat output looks likely to fall in 2022 after five consecutive years of record harvests, as a sharp, sudden rise in temperatures in mid-March cut crop yields in the world’s second-biggest producer of the grain. The drop could curb Indian exports of the staple. […]

By Mayank Bhardwaj Neha Arora

USDA attache predicts large 2022-23 grain crops for Canada

May. 2, 2022 at 6:49 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — Canada is expected to see a 30 per cent increase in grain production in 2022-23, according to estimates from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Foreign Agricultural Service post in Ottawa. Expectations for improved yields for Prairie grain crops after the 2021-22 drought accounted for much of the projected […]

By MarketsFarm