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Yuri and Oleksiy, farmers wearing body armours and helmets, prepare for field work in Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia region amid Russia’s invasion, on April 26, 2022. (Photo: Reuters/Ueslei Marcelino)

Worsening global food security needs Ukraine, Russia production, UN chief says

By GFM Network News May 5, 2022

Abuja | Reuters — U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Wednesday the problem of global food security could not be solved without restoring Ukrainian agricultural production and Russian food and fertilizer output to the world market. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February has added to volatility in financial markets, sending commodity prices higher and affecting logistics,

Nutrien’s Patience Lake potash facility, about 15 km east of Saskatoon. (Nutrien.com)

Crops

Nutrien may further raise potash output as sanctions curb other supplies

By GFM Network News, Tom Polansek May 3, 2022

Chicago | Reuters — Canada’s Nutrien, the world’s largest fertilizer company, is weighing further increases to potash production as sanctions continue to limit shipments from Russia and Belarus, interim CEO Ken Seitz said on Tuesday. Prices of crop nutrients such as potash have skyrocketed as sanctions against Russia for its invasion of Ukraine have disrupted

CF’s facility at Medicine Hat, Alta. is billed as the largest nitrogen manufacturing complex in Canada. (CFIndustries.com)

Crops, Markets

CF Industries boosts U.S. fertilizer shipments as Russian exports cut

By GFM Network News, Tom Polansek March 16, 2022

Chicago | Reuters — CF Industries is increasing fertilizer shipments to both U.S. coasts from the world’s largest nitrogen complex in Louisiana to help offset a decline in exports from Russia after it invaded Ukraine, CEO Tony Will said. Global fertilizer supplies have tightened and prices have increased from already high levels as sanctions bite

Nutrien’s potash mine at Lanigan, Sask., about 100 km southeast of Saskatoon. (Nutrien.com)

Crops

Nutrien takes cautious potash approach as rival copes with sanctions

By GFM Network News, Rod Nickel February 18, 2022

Winnipeg | Reuters — Canada’s Nutrien, the world’s biggest fertilizer company, is bumping up potash production as sanctions restrict its rival in Belarus, but is holding off on bigger expansion, its interim CEO said on Thursday. Potash prices have climbed to decade highs as state-owned Belaruskali, the second-largest producer after Nutrien, copes with U.S. and

File photo of Canpotex potash cars. (Dave Bedard photo)

Crops, Markets

Nutrien eyes potash production boost amid turmoil in Russia, Belarus

Idled Saskatchewan mines could be restarted

By GFM Network News, Polina Devitt, Rod Nickel February 1, 2022

Winnipeg | Reuters — Nutrien, the world’s biggest potash miner, could boost production by up to 29 per cent in coming years, depending on any sanctions facing rival producers in Russia and Belarus, the Canadian company’s interim CEO told Reuters. Prices of granular potash fertilizer are near 10-year highs in the United States and Brazil,

Markets, News

Belarus potash exporter says sanctions will increase global prices

By Reuters August 24, 2021

Belarus Potash Company (BPC), the exporting arm of state potash producer Belaruskali, says western sanctions on Belaruskali would lead to an increase in global potash prices and reduced availability of the crop nutrient. Washington earlier this month blacklisted Belaruskali, one of Belarus’s largest state-owned enterprises and one of the world’s largest producers of potash, and

Crops, Markets, Other

Nutrien confident in potash demand even with BHP project

By GFM Network News, Nia Williams August 17, 2021

Calgary | Reuters — Canada’s largest potash producer Nutrien said Tuesday it is confident in growing global demand for the crop fertilizer, shrugging off BHP Group’s decision to press on with its massive Jansen project in Saskatchewan that will add millions of tonnes a year of potash supply. BHP announced Tuesday it is going ahead

Crops, Markets

Potash partnership with BHP ‘not our focus,’ Nutrien executive says

Prices surging on rising demand, Belarus sanctions

By GFM Network News, Rod Nickel June 23, 2021

Winnipeg | Reuters — Canadian potash producer Nutrien is not focused on any potential collaboration with miner BHP Group, a senior Nutrien executive said Tuesday in the company’s first public comments about reports of possible co-operation. BHP has for years been constructing a potash mine at Jansen, Sask., near Nutrien’s six mines in the province.

Nutrien’s potash mine near Rocanville, Sask. (Nutrien.com)

Crops, Markets

Nutrien to further bump up potash output

'Continued tightening' in market cited as potash producer Belarus sanctioned

By GFM Network News, Rod Nickel June 22, 2021

Winnipeg | Reuters — Canadian fertilizer producer Nutrien said Monday it would boost its 2021 potash output by 500,000 tonnes, after the European Union and others imposed new trade sanctions on Belarus. Nutrien’s increase takes its potash sales outlook this year to a record-high range of 13.3 million to 13.8 million tonnes, and follows a

Bulk wheat being loaded on a ship in a Russian port. (YGrek/iStock/Getty Images)

Crops, Markets

Russia will suspend grain exports for six weeks if quota runs out mid-May

Several supplies to Egypt might be affected, traders say

By GFM Network News, Polina Devitt April 17, 2020

Moscow | Reuters — Russia, the world’s biggest wheat exporter, will suspend grain exports until July 1 once its export quota is exhausted, which is currently expected to happen in mid-May, its deputy agriculture minister Oksana Lut said on Friday. Russia last fully banned wheat exports in 2010 when drought hit its harvest, rocking global

Second Harvest redirecting surplus food to those in need

U.S. grains: Soy futures top one-week high, US crop outlook limits gains

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures down, hogs rise

Daily Network News

Second Harvest redirecting surplus food to those in need

U.S. grains: Soy futures top one-week high, US crop outlook limits gains

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures down, hogs rise

Tag Archives Belarus — page 2

Worsening global food security needs Ukraine, Russia production, UN chief says

Nutrien may further raise potash output as sanctions curb other supplies

CF Industries boosts U.S. fertilizer shipments as Russian exports cut

Nutrien takes cautious potash approach as rival copes with sanctions

Nutrien eyes potash production boost amid turmoil in Russia, Belarus

Belarus potash exporter says sanctions will increase global prices

Nutrien confident in potash demand even with BHP project

Potash partnership with BHP ‘not our focus,’ Nutrien executive says

Nutrien to further bump up potash output

Russia will suspend grain exports for six weeks if quota runs out mid-May

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