Insights and Stories on Russia

U.S. grains: Wheat reaches two-month high on Ukraine worries

Sep. 22, 2022 at 5:01 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. wheat futures set fresh two-month highs on Thursday, buoyed by risks of a deepening conflict in Ukraine and dry weather in crop areas of Argentina and the U.S. Plains, traders said. Commodity funds hold a net short position in Chicago Board of Trade wheat futures, […]

U.S, grains: Wheat climbs as Ukraine war escalation feared

Sep. 21, 2022 at 6:22 pm CDT

By Julie Ingwersen

CBOT weekly outlook: War chatter part of market chaos

Sep. 21, 2022 at 4:35 pm CDT

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

U.S. grains: Wheat up on new concerns for Black Sea supplies

Sep. 20, 2022 at 6:33 pm CDT

By Christopher Walljasper

Bunge to sell oilseed processing business in Russia

Sep. 19, 2022 at 6:57 pm CDT

By Reuters

U.S. grains: Wheat falls on Russian production outlook

Sep. 19, 2022 at 6:44 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago wheat fell on Monday on an expected increase in Russia’s crop that will compete with U.S. exports, already hampered by a strong U.S. dollar, traders said. Soybeans were underpinned by Chinese export demand, while corn ended up slightly after two-sided trade on broader economic uncertainty. […]

By Christopher Walljasper

Prairie cash wheat: Putin comments raise wheat bids

Sep. 9, 2022 at 7:14 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — Comments from Russian President Vladimir Putin brought more uncertainty to Ukrainian wheat shipments, which in turn helped raise western Canadian wheat bids for the week ended Thursday. On Wednesday at an economic forum in the eastern Russian city of Vladivostok, Putin said the Ukrainians were “cheating,” adding that […]

By Adam Peleshaty

File photo of a docked grain vessel at a Black Sea port in Turkey.

U.S. working with U.N. on Russia food, fertilizer export complaints

Sep. 9, 2022 at 5:23 pm CDT

New York | Reuters — The United States is working with the United Nations to address Russian complaints that sanctions are hindering its food and fertilizer shipments, even though there has been no disruption to Moscow’s exports of the commodities, a senior U.S. official said on Friday. The United Nations, […]

By Michelle Nichols

U.N., Moscow discuss Russian grain, fertilizer exports

Sep. 7, 2022 at 6:46 pm CDT

United Nations | Reuters — Senior U.N. and Russian officials met in Geneva on Wednesday to discuss Russian complaints that Western sanctions were impeding its grain and fertilizer exports despite a U.N.-brokered deal to boost Russian and Ukrainian shipments of the commodities. The United Nations, Turkey, Ukraine and Russia agreed […]