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A vessel is seen arriving at Odesa in southern Ukraine under the Black Sea Grain Initiative on April 12, 2023. (Photo: Yulii Zozulia/Nurphoto via Reuters Connect)

Ukraine introduces minimum export prices for major agricultural goods

By Reuters December 2, 2024

Kyiv | Reuters – Ukraine has introduced a new system for exporting key agrarian goods, including grains, which implies a ban on shipping consignments of goods at prices below those set by the agriculture ministry. Ukraine is a major grain and oilseeds grower and exporter and the new system became operational on Dec. 1. The government

A training session involving some 2,000 Ukrainian conscripts and veterans takes place in the muddy fields of the Champagne military camp in eastern France, Nov. 14, 2024.

Op/Ed

The environmental cost of conflict

Farmers around the world pay the price for the wars they didn’t start

By Brenda Schoepp November 15, 2024

Farmers around the world pay the price for the wars they didn’t start

Farms like this — photographed during peaceful times — are at danger of aerial attack.

News, Op/Ed

Hiding granaries from missiles

The farmers of Ukraine toil on, even in the shadow of a long war

By Ihor Pavliuk November 14, 2024

Ukrainian farmers say the war has affected them, but they cannot stop their work.

Ukraine’s maritime food exports fall to 4.13 mln T in August

By Pavel Polityuk September 6, 2024

Kyiv | Reuters – Ukraine’s food exports by sea and river totalled 4.13 million metric tons in August, down from 4.25 million tons in July, agriculture ministry data showed on Friday. That included 2.18 million tons of wheat, 553,732 tons of corn and 454,641 tons of barley, the data showed. Ukraine’s UGA grain traders union

File photo of sunset over port facilities at Odesa. (Mixarde/iStock/Getty Images)

Cereals, Markets

Ukraine boosts grain exports despite intensified Russian attacks

By Jonathan Saul, Pavel Polityuk, Tom Balmforth August 12, 2024

Kyiv/London | Reuters – Ukraine is scrambling to ship as much grain as it can this summer, taking advantage of military gains it has made in the Black Sea area to boost exports even as Russia has attacked its ports. Ukraine is a major global wheat and corn grower and before Russia’s invasion in 2022

Firefighters work at the site of a Russian air strike, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, in Kharkiv, Ukraine May 14, 2024.

News, Other

From Ukraine: Our common hive

The people of Ukraine continue to adapt, survive and even thrive

By Ihor Pavliuk May 29, 2024

You wake up in the morning and drink coffee before starting the work day. You turn on the TV and listen to a long list of deaths and destruction that happened in your country overnight. The announcer speaks almost without emotion, as if he is talking about everyday, ordinary things. You hear that 10 missiles

Daughter Kateryna Zhovtyak founded a bakery before the war, but is now in uniform.

News, Other

From Ukraine: On the home front

Polina Zhovtyak keeps the home fires burning as her husband and daughter serve in the Ukrainian army

By Ihor Pavliuk April 26, 2024

After more than two years of all-out war, I have heard many incredible stories of people and how they cope, survive and even thrive. At times I think I will be surprised by nothing. In some parts of the country, in relatively peaceful regions, some live much as they did before the war. In other

A man is seen outside the house damaged by Russian shelling, Odesa Region, southern Ukraine. (Photo by Nina Liashonok/Ukrinform/Sipa USA)

What is war fatigue?

If the West is 'tired' of the war in Ukraine, consider the reality of Ukrainians

By GFM Network News, Ihor Pavliuk January 17, 2024

As we approached the end of December, my mood, like that of most Ukrainians, was not at all Christmassy. The heroic achievement of 2022, when our lives hung in the balance and our defenders managed to repel the enemy, was replaced by the bloody routine of 2023.

Soil surveys in war zones have revealed widespread diffuse soil pollution in agricultural lands.

Comment

Comment: War’s long shadow

Warfare ruins the environment – and not just on the front lines

By Jonathan Bridge December 19, 2023

On the morning of December 6, 1917, a French cargo ship called SS Mont-Blanc collided with a Norwegian vessel in Halifax harbour. The SS Mont-Blanc, which was laden with 3,000 tons of high explosives destined for the battlefields of the first world war, caught fire and exploded. The resulting blast released an amount of energy

A display of civilian vehicles destroyed in the war in Kyiv.

News

From Ukraine: Civilian cars and ancient farm machinery

[FIRST PERSON ]Ukraine’s history of making do pays off in wartime as farmers support the war

By Ihor Pavliuk November 29, 2023

Ukraine’s agriculture is diverse and so is the equipment on Ukrainian farms. Near my town, a German-made NEXAT transformer unit is working in the fields and is one of few in the world. It’s a massive all-in-one machine that handles every step in crop production: spring cultivation, seeding, crop protection and harvesting. While this is the cutting edge, you’ll

Daily Network News

U.S. livestock: Cattle slip back, hogs gain

U.S. grains: Soy futures post biggest monthly gain in nearly five years on China trade optimism

Farm gate milk price to rise in 2026

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