Insights and Stories on Grain Exports

Ukraine corn exports seen falling sharply in June, producers union says

Jun. 4, 2025 at 9:04 am CDT

Kyiv | Reuters – Ukrainian corn exports are set to fall to one million metric tons in June from two million tons in May, as Ukraine-origin corn is uncompetitive compared to its American equivalent, producers’ union UAC said on Wednesday. Ukraine is a traditional corn grower and exporter and exports […]

Wheat is transfered to the cargo ship 'Jork' at the Alliance Grain Terminal in Vancouver

Solid Canadian grain/oilseed exports to start 2024/25

Sep. 6, 2024 at 3:35 pm CDT

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Ukraine 2024/25 wheat exports to be capped

Sep. 3, 2024 at 11:02 am CDT

By Pavel Polityuk

Ukraine boosts grain exports despite intensified Russian attacks

Aug. 12, 2024 at 9:38 am CDT

By Jonathan Saul Pavel Polityuk Tom Balmforth

Pulse weekly: Canadian pulse exports slowing

Jun. 11, 2024 at 3:26 pm CDT

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

More grain ships diverted from Red Sea due to Houthi attacks

Feb. 9, 2024 at 9:44 am CST

More ships carrying grain were diverted from the Suez Canal to sailings around the Cape of Good Hope this week as concern about attacks on vessels in the Red Sea continued, shipping analysts said on Friday.

By Reuters

Ukraine’s farm unions ask government to protect free EU market access

Feb. 5, 2024 at 9:49 am CST

Ukrainian agrarian unions have asked the government to do everything possible to maintain free access to the European market for their food products, the UCAB association said on Monday.

By Pavel Polityuk Reuters

Ukraine’s Dec Black Sea food exports top U.N.-brokered deal at its peak

Jan. 10, 2024 at 10:38 am CST

Ukraine exported 4.8 million metric tons of food via its Black Sea corridor in December, surpassing the maximum monthly volume exported under a previous U.N.-brokered grain deal, brokers said on Wednesday.

By Pavel Polityuk Reuters

St. Lawrence traffic to resume as tentative labour deal reached

Oct. 30, 2023 at 11:58 am CDT

A week-long strike by about 360 unionized workers on the St. Lawrence Seaway ended Monday morning with a tentative agreement on a new labour deal. The St. Lawrence Seaway Management Corporation (SLSMC) and Unifor, the union representing the workers, announced the new agreement separately Sunday evening. Unionized workers had been […]

By Dave Bedard

Russia destroyed 300,000 tonnes of grain since July in attacks, Kyiv says

Oct. 13, 2023 at 7:33 pm CDT

Kyiv | Reuters — Russia has destroyed almost 300,000 metric tonnes of grain since July in attacks on Ukraine’s port facilities and on ships, the Ukrainian government said on Friday, underscoring the war’s threat to global food security. In summer, Moscow quit a U.N.-brokered deal that had allowed exports of […]