Insights and Stories on Turkey

Turkish team to discuss Black Sea grain corridor in Russia this week

Jun. 21, 2022 at 3:47 pm CDT

Ankara | Reuters — Ankara’s military delegation will travel to Russia this week to discuss details of a possible safe sea corridor in the Black Sea to export Ukrainian grain, Turkish presidency sources said on Tuesday. Russia’s TASS agency confirmed plans for the talks, citing Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov. Russia’s […]

Turkey says Ukraine grain ships could avoid mines

Jun. 15, 2022 at 5:10 pm CDT

By Michelle Nichols Tuvan Gumrukcu

Ukraine envoy says Turkey among destinations of grain stolen by Russia

Jun. 3, 2022 at 7:11 pm CDT

By Reuters

Kremlin says Putin ready to facilitate grain exports via Ukraine ports

May. 30, 2022 at 5:58 pm CDT

By Guy Faulconbridge

Trudeau pledges help for Ukraine to find options to export grain

May. 9, 2022 at 7:49 pm CDT

By Tom Balmforth

Avian flu arrives in Saskatchewan poultry

Apr. 18, 2022 at 8:22 am CDT

Highly pathogenic avian influenza has been confirmed in a poultry flock and a non-commercial flock in separate areas of Saskatchewan. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency said it confirmed high-path avian flu on Thursday in a small non-commercial flock in the RM of Moose Mountain, near Carlyle in the province’s southeast, […]

By Dave Bedard

Second southwestern Ontario farm hit with avian flu

Mar. 29, 2022 at 3:47 pm CDT

A second turkey operation in southwestern Ontario has been confirmed and quarantined with highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza — but of a strain separate from the one seen in an outbreak in the same region a day earlier. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency said in a statement Monday its National […]

By Dave Bedard

Ukraine shuts ports as conflict threatens grain supplies

Feb. 24, 2022 at 4:56 pm CST

Moscow/Kyiv | Reuters — Ukraine’s military has suspended commercial shipping at its ports after Russian forces invaded the country, an adviser to the Ukrainian president’s chief of staff said, stoking fear of supply disruption from leading grain and oilseeds exporters. Russia earlier ordered the Azov Sea closed to the movement […]

By Gleb Stolyarov Natalia Zinets Polina Devitt

Pulse weekly outlook: Lentil prices decline, may shift in spring

Feb. 1, 2022 at 3:26 pm CST

MarketsFarm — Prices for Canadian lentils, along with other pulses in the country, have slightly declined since the start of 2022. However, one pulse buyer thinks the next few months can recharge the market. Lionel Ector, president of Diefenbaker Spice and Pulse at Elbow, Sask., explained that a good Australian […]

By Adam Peleshaty

EU’s bird flu outbreaks reach Poland

Nov. 8, 2021 at 5:23 pm CST

Paris | Reuters — Poland has reported several outbreaks of highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu at poultry farms with flocks totalling nearly 650,000 birds, the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) said on Monday. Poland is the European Union’s largest poultry producer. Five outbreaks, of which four were at fattening […]