Insights and Stories on Sunflower

All quiet on the organic front

Mar. 31, 2023 at 2:43 pm CDT

By Adam Peleshaty MarketsFarm/Glacier FarmMedia staff While Western Canada and Ontario may be separated by crop variety, weather and distance, both regions’ organic markets were beset by low activity and a hesitance from buyers to commit long-term. “It’s quiet,” said Scott Shiels, grain procurement manager at Grain Millers Inc. in […]

Argentina soybean crop smaller than expected, USDA attaché says

Feb. 1, 2023 at 8:13 pm CST

By MarketsFarm

Corteva cuts U.S. jobs while exiting Russia

Dec. 19, 2022 at 5:15 pm CST

By P.J. Huffstutter Tom Polansek

EU cuts estimate of drought-hit maize crop, raises import outlook

Nov. 25, 2022 at 5:50 pm CST

By Gus Trompiz

Russian drones hit sunflower oil terminal, Mykolaiv mayor says

Oct. 17, 2022 at 7:23 pm CDT

By Reuters

Bunge to sell oilseed processing business in Russia

Sep. 19, 2022 at 6:57 pm CDT

Reuters — Agricultural commodities trader Bunge said Monday it has agreed to sell its oilseed processing business in Russia to Karen Vanetsyan, the controlling shareholder of Exoil Group. The sale includes the sunflower processing plant in Voronezh. Bunge and its rivals ADM, Cargill and Louis Dreyfus — part of the […]

By Reuters

Manitoba’s sunflower crop smaller, better

Aug. 30, 2022 at 8:21 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — If Canada’s 2022 sunflower seed harvest is to be the lowest in five years, you wouldn’t know it talking to producers of the crop. In its July satellite image-based principal field crops estimates released Monday, Statistics Canada projected sunflower seed production for the 2022-23 marketing year at 61,996 […]

By Adam Peleshaty

Russia’s war may deprive world of three Ukrainian wheat harvests, minister says

Jun. 15, 2022 at 4:11 pm CDT

Kyiv | Reuters — Russia’s invasion of Ukraine will create a global wheat shortage for at least three seasons by keeping much of the Ukrainian crop from markets, pushing prices to record levels, Ukraine’s agriculture minister told Reuters. Ukraine, sometimes known as Europe’s breadbasket, has had its maritime grain export […]

By Pavel Polityuk

Ukrainian farmers don bulletproof vests to plough frontline fields

Apr. 27, 2022 at 4:07 am CDT

Zaporizhzhia | Reuters — Ukrainian farmers in the southern region of Zaporizhzhia, which borders the frontline of the military conflict with Russia, are now wearing body armour to plough their fields. A week after the war started, grad rockets — bombs fired via a truck-mounted multiple-launch system — began falling […]

By Joseph Campbell

EU’s oilseed yields expected to decline in 2022-23

Apr. 23, 2022 at 3:09 am CDT

MarketsFarm — The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) attachés in Europe have projected oilseed production in the 27-member European Union to increase just slightly in 2022-23. The 18 attachés involved in the report expect about 31.07 million tonnes in total, for a 0.4 per cent bump in total oilseed output […]