Insights and Stories on Exports

CP to lock out engineers, conductors starting Sunday

Mar. 16, 2022 at 8:16 pm CDT

Canadian Pacific Railway has served its unionized engineers, conductors and train and yard service staff with notice of a lockout to start just after midnight ET on Sunday, unless the company and union agree on a new labour deal by then. Calgary-based CP and the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference (TCRC), […]

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

Mar. 16, 2022 at 7:06 pm CDT

By Christopher Walljasper

CBOT weekly outlook: Corn, wheat undergo major corrections

Mar. 16, 2022 at 4:38 pm CDT

By Adam Peleshaty

CF Industries boosts U.S. fertilizer shipments as Russian exports cut

Mar. 16, 2022 at 3:44 pm CDT

By Tom Polansek

U.S. grains: Wheat up on Russian export suspension, U.S. drought

Mar. 15, 2022 at 5:54 pm CDT

By Christopher Walljasper

Canadian and U.S. shippers brace for possible CP strike

Mar. 15, 2022 at 12:06 pm CDT

Winnipeg | Reuters — Thousands of workers at Canada’s second-biggest railway, Canadian Pacific Railway, have threatened to strike this week, potentially disrupting the movement of grain, potash and coal at a time of soaring commodity prices. The strike is the latest risk to Canada’s battered supply chain, which last year […]

By Rod Nickel

U.S. livestock: CME cattle, hogs firm amid market uncertainty

Mar. 14, 2022 at 6:55 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange cattle futures climbed on Monday as traders attempted to make sense of changing trade restrictions and allowances. “The market’s trying to sort out all these trade protection measures,” said Alan Brugler, president of Brugler Marketing. “Everybody seems to want imports, and nobody wants […]

By Reuters

Canada allows Brazilian beef and pork, Brazil ag minister says

Mar. 14, 2022 at 3:40 pm CDT

Updated, March 15 — Reuters — Canada has approved the importation of beef and pork from Brazil, which had been blocked over health concerns, authorities from both countries said on Monday. “We are in Ottawa and have just left the Canadian Ministry of Agriculture with … great news: the opening […]

By Reuters

U.S. grains: Corn eases on Ukraine ceasefire talks

Mar. 14, 2022 at 3:26 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago corn fell on Monday, pressured by uncertainty in the Black Sea region as talks of a ceasefire in Ukraine could open up the region to exports, though progress remains uncertain. Wheat eased early in the session, but returned to near even on news that Russia […]

By Christopher Walljasper

Traders consider exporting Ukraine grain by rail

Mar. 11, 2022 at 8:25 pm CST

Lviv | Reuters — Traders are trying to arrange the export of Ukrainian-origin grain by train through western Ukraine’s borders, but the export capacities are very limited, APK-Inform agriculture consultancy said Friday. Ukraine’s state-run railway operator said this week it was ready to organize agricultural exports by rail as a […]

By Reuters