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Micronutrient fertilizer to fully commercialize

The announced Saskatchewan facility will be the first major manufacturing facility for Soileos

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Three years ago, startup Lucent BioSciences was producing one kilogram a day of its novel micronutrient fertilizer Soileos — drawn from crop byproduct like pea or lentil hulls. Once a recently announced manufacturing plant in Rosetown, Sask., goes online, it will be churning out upwards of 6,500 tonnes a year.  The $19-million project, supported by
File photo of Black Sea port facilities at Odesa, Ukraine. (Leskas/iStock/Getty Images)
Crops, Markets

U.N. aid chief in Moscow to discuss Ukraine grain exports

Russia says will guarantee grain vessels' safety

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Reuters — U.N. aid chief Martin Griffiths is in Moscow on Thursday and Friday to discuss clearing the way for exports of grain and other food from Ukraine’s Black Sea ports, a U.N. spokesperson said. Griffiths will meet Russian officials days after another senior U.N. official, Rebecca Grynspan, had “constructive” talks in Moscow with Russian
Southward displacement of arctic air is fuelling the ongoing storm systems and resulting rains pushing through southern Manitoba.
Weather

Displaced arctic air and heat waves

Under a ridge of high pressure, sinking air can lead to truly warm days

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I received a few requests over the last week to stop discussing heavy rainfall and thunderstorms and start talking about summer heat waves. All of this, of course, is in the hope that talking about heat will maybe somehow make it happen. Oh, if only it was that simple. I also received a few questions
File photo of barley being loaded for export at the Black Sea port of Mykolaiv, Ukraine on July 9, 2013. (Photo: Reuters/Vincent Mundy)
Crops, Markets

U.N. had ‘constructive’ talks in Moscow on Russian grain, fertilizer exports

U.S. could offer 'comfort letters' to shippers, insurers

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United Nations | Reuters — A senior U.N. official had “constructive discussions” in Moscow with Russian First Deputy Prime Minister Andrei Belousov on facilitating Russian grain and fertilizer exports to global markets, U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said on Tuesday. The U.N. official, Rebecca Grynspan, is now in Washington for talks on the same issue “with
Cargo ships are docked in Ukraine’s Black Sea port of Odesa on Nov. 4, 2016. (File photo: Reuters/Valentyn Ogirenko)
Crops, Markets

Kremlin says Putin ready to facilitate grain exports via Ukraine ports

Russia says will work with Turkey

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London | Reuters — President Vladimir Putin said Monday that Russia was ready to facilitate the unhindered export of grain from Ukrainian ports in co-ordination with Turkey, according to a Kremlin readout of talks with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan. Besides the death and devastation sown by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the war and the West’s
Yara’s fertilizer terminal at Stockton, California. (Sebastian Braum photo, Yara.com)
Crops

Fertilizer maker Yara says world faces extreme food supply shock

Sanctions cut global fertilizer supply 15 per cent, company says

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Davos, Switzerland | Reuters — Norwegian fertilizer giant Yara says donors urgently need to close the U.N.’s $10 billion food programme funding gap to avoid a catastrophe as sanctions on Russian fertilizers and Ukraine’s grain export problems have created an extreme global shock. “The world has realized that food can be a weapon and it
Grain shippers say the real problem is a capacity shortfall, and they worry when grain volumes pick up, the problem will be even worse. photo: paterson grain
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Railways catching up with grain shipper demand

But the bigger question is what happens this fall if a ‘normal’ crop rolls in

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After a brutal few months of being unable to meet the shipping demands of grain companies, the two major railways have largely caught up. “Over the last two or three weeks, it’s got a little bit better,” said Mark Hemmes, of Quorum Corp., Canada’s grain monitor. “We probably have less grain left to ship now,

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