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File photo of a field of soybeans under turbines at southern Manitoba’s St. Joseph wind farm. (Dougall_Photography/iStock/Getty Images)
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Russia to ban some imports of seeds from Canada, Europe

Canada's Prograin soybean seed on list

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Moscow | Reuters — Russia will ban imports of some seeds from several locations in Europe and Canada from Aug. 15, its agriculture safety watchdog said on Thursday, citing non-compliance by suppliers with phytosanitary requirements as the reason. Imports of tomato and carrot seeds will be banned from a nursery of Satimex Quedlinburg, in Germany,
CBOT November 2022 soybeans (candlesticks) with Bollinger bands (20,2). (Barchart)
Crops, Markets

U.S. grains: Chicago grains firm on yield uncertainty ahead of USDA report

Grains also underpinned by U.S. dollar fall after inflation data

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Chicago | Reuters — Chicago wheat and soybean futures closed higher on Thursday as a weaker U.S. dollar lent support to dollar-priced commodities and traders squared up their positions ahead of a key government report. Meanwhile, corn futures firmed, supported by concerns about hot and dry weather stressing the U.S. Midwest crop through its final
A canola field in bloom in Manitoba's Interlake on Aug. 7, 2022.
Grain Markets, Markets

Grains and oilseeds see volatile week

Ukraine deal and Pelosi visit to Taiwan both factor into market moves

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The grain and oilseed markets saw choppy activity during the first week of the 2022-23 crop year, with canola down and up in reaction to several outside forces. On the whole, canola prices ended back around where they closed the 2021-22 crop year, with attention back on weather conditions ahead of the harvest. Ukrainian grain
CBOT September 2022 wheat (candlesticks) with 20-day moving average (green line), MGEX September 2022 spring wheat (yellow line) and K.C. September 2022 hard red wheat (orange line). (Barchart)
Crops, Markets

U.S. grains: Corn, wheat futures extend gains on crop risks

Wheat market also weighs prospects for more Ukraine exports

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Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Board of Trade corn and wheat futures rose on Wednesday, as hot, dry weather in parts of the U.S. and Europe kept attention on harvest risks, while soybeans settled lower after notching contract highs. Traders also adjusted positions ahead of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) monthly supply and demand
Soybean development moving ‘very quickly,’ insect pressures rise on thin pesticide supply
Crop Report, Crops, News

Soybean development moving ‘very quickly,’ insect pressures rise on thin pesticide supply

Manitoba Crop Report: Issue 14, August 9, 2022

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Overview Soybean aphids are reaching economic thresholds in scattered locations across Manitoba. Spraying is occurring as-needed, but crops require intensive scouting on a field-by-field basis. Grasshopper pest species are present in all regions – mostly confined to field edges and headlands but moving more as insects reach adult (winged) stages and travel further into fields.
Crops

Ukraine’s first outbound corn cargo refused by buyer

Buyer cites months of delay, embassy says

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Istanbul | Reuters — The Razoni, the first ship to depart Ukraine under a U.N.-brokered deal, is looking for another port to unload its grain cargo as the initial Lebanese buyer refused delivery citing a more than five-month delay, Ukraine’s embassy in Lebanon said Monday. “According to the information provided by the shipper of the
Ihor, a farmer in central Ukraine, poses in his sunflower field. The plant has become one of the symbols of the war-torn country.
Farmit Manitoba, News

The rules of war zone production

Cost savings are king for Ukrainian farmers with high costs and uncertainty over exports

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“It’s good that you didn’t arrive an hour earlier – three rockets just flew in,” says Denys, an agricultural equipment sales manager who meets me in the city of Kropyvnytskyi in central Ukraine. For the first time in five months, since the beginning of the war, I’m going on a field trip. Throughout the 10
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Developing world food prices first to fall: U.S. official

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Reuters – Weaker commodities prices will take longer to ease food inflation in the U.S. than in the developing world, according to a July 26 statement from Seth Meyer, chief economist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Some of the world’s poorest nations were hardest hit by a spike in corn and wheat prices after

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