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Nutrien’s head office building in Saskatoon. (Liam O’Connor photo)
Crops, Markets

Nutrien misses quarterly profit estimates as potash prices plummet

Fertilizer demand expected to rise in Q4

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Reuters — Nutrien fell short of analysts’ estimates for third-quarter profit on Wednesday, as lower potash prices weighed on the world’s biggest fertilizer producer. Potash prices have been falling after shipments from Belarus and Russia resumed. These exports had been significantly restricted last year following Western sanctions imposed on Russia in response to its invasion
Canola production is down from 2022 and more of it will likely end up with domestic crushers.
Grain Markets, Markets

Canada’s grain exports remain brisk

Export's Radar: Any unrest in the Middle East will sway energy and financial markets

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Harvest operations are wrapping up across the Prairies and attention in grain markets is turning to outside influences. Exports Canadian canola exports were running at a solid pace through the first 10 weeks of the 2023-24 marketing year, but that pace will be hard to maintain. Production was down on the year and more of
A service in the interior of the damaged church. Local farmers are helping in its restoration.
News, Other

From Ukraine: Rebuilding in the rubble

Hryhoriy Tkachenko revives his farm after the occupation

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One and a half years have passed since the invasion of Russian troops into Ukraine. The farm of Hryhoriy Tkachenko came under attack in the first days of the war. During the three weeks of occupation, the farm was so badly damaged that he still cannot restore everything. It was the near-total destruction of 20 years of work. He
A seaport grain terminal damaged during Russian missile and drone strikes in Odesa region, Ukraine on July 19, 2023. (Photo: Ukrainian Infrastructure Ministry via Facebook/Handout via Reuters)
Crops

Russia destroyed 300,000 tonnes of grain since July in attacks, Kyiv says

Port damage cuts export potential 40 per cent, deputy PM says

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Kyiv | Reuters — Russia has destroyed almost 300,000 metric tonnes of grain since July in attacks on Ukraine’s port facilities and on ships, the Ukrainian government said on Friday, underscoring the war’s threat to global food security. In summer, Moscow quit a U.N.-brokered deal that had allowed exports of Ukrainian grain through the Black
Soldiers of the Mobile Anti-Drone Group of the 160th Air Defense Missile Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces during a Shahed drone detection and destruction training near Odessa, Ukraine, October 10, 2023.
News, Other

Comment: Mixed signals among Kyiv’s allies hint at growing conflict fatigue

It is now almost 600 days since Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine

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Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the following war has tested the resilience of both countries, but it has also tested Ukraine-supporting nations in the West. This much was evident from the mixed reception Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, received when he visited the U.S. and Canada in late September. Meanwhile, tensions in Europe over Ukrainian support
With Russia having a huge surplus, shipments from war-torn Ukraine curtailed and drought reducing harvest prospects in other exporting countries, the international market looks more reliant on Russian wheat this season.
News

Why are Russian export prices roiling the wheat market?

Dissecting the factors around Russia’s grain movement and its impact on global markets

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Reuters – Russian wheat offers at a recent import tender by Egypt were all made at the same price, highlighting what traders classify as behind-the-scenes intervention by Russia’s government that is sowing confusion about the world’s biggest wheat-exporting country. Here is a more detailed look at what is happening: Russian policy In March, sources told
File photo of barley being unloaded at a grain terminal in Ukraine on June 23, 2022. (Photo: Reuters/Igor Tkachenko)
Crops, Markets

U.N. held talks in Russia on Monday on grain, fertilizer exports

'Unimpeded access' sought for Ukrainian, Russian grain

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United Nations | Reuters — Top United Nations trade official Rebeca Grynspan met with Russian officials in Moscow on Monday for talks aimed at enabling the “unimpeded access” to global markets for grain and fertilizer from Russia and Ukraine, a U.N. spokesperson said. U.N. aid chief Martin Griffiths also attended the meetings virtually, U.N. spokesperson
Liberia-flagged bulker K Sukret, carrying grain under the Black Sea Grain Initiative, waits for inspection in the southern anchorage of Istanbul on May 17, 2023. (Photo: Reuters/Mehmet Emin Caliskan)
Crops, Markets

Britain says Russia may target civilian shipping with mines in Black Sea

Intel suggests goal is to deter Ukraine grain exports, Britain says

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London | Reuters — Russia may use sea mines to target civilian shipping in the Black Sea, including by laying them on the approach to Ukrainian ports, the British government said on Wednesday citing intelligence. Russia in July pulled out of a deal that had allowed Ukraine to safely ship food products out through what
Vessels are seen as they await inspection under the Black Sea Grain Initiative, brokered by the UN and Turkey, in the southern anchorage of the Bosphorus at Istanbul on Dec. 11, 2022. (File photo: Reuters/Yoruk Isik)
Crops, Markets

Russia’s leverage on grain to decline, senior U.S. official says

Attacks on ships may hurt pricing

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New York | Reuters — Russia’s leverage over Ukraine’s export of grain via the Black Sea will likely erode in weeks to come as more ships are able to leave Ukrainian ports and rising costs could prompt Moscow to reconsider its abandonment of the grain deal, a senior U.S. State Department official said. James O’Brien,
(Dave Bedard photo)
Crops, Markets

Cargill agrees to sell stake in Russian grain terminal

Buyer says deal under government review

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Reuters — U.S.-based commodities trader Cargill said on Thursday it had agreed to sell its stake in a Russian grain terminal to Russia’s Delo Group. “In line with Cargill’s earlier announcement to stop the export of Russian grain in July 2023, we can confirm we have reached an agreement with Delo to sell our 25

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