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A POPRAD close air defence vehicle is parked in a field near Poland’s southeastern border with Ukraine on Feb. 28.

War in Ukraine sends wheat prices sky high

Concerns over dry conditions in the Prairies and Plains also loom

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm March 10, 2022

Wheat prices have risen dramatically since Russian forces invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24, and war premiums have pushed values to exorbitant levels. At the close of trading on March 3, the nearby Chicago May wheat contract finished at US$11.34 per bushel, after its third consecutive limit-up gain. Kansas City May wheat ended that day at

A Ukrainian couple embrace tearfully on the streets of Lviv, in western Ukraine, as they prepare to leave for the relative safety of nearby Poland Feb. 24, 2022.

News, Other

How the U.S. could tighten sanctions on Russia

Global powers, led by the U.S., are taking decisive economic action against aggressor

By Daphne Psaledakis March 3, 2022

Reuters – The United States on February 24 imposed sanctions on Russia in retaliation for its invasion of Ukraine, targeting major banks and members of the elite coupled with new export control measures. Washington warned that more action could follow and that all options are on the table. Here are some ways in which the

Rescuers work at a residential building damaged by recent shelling, as Russia's invasion of Ukraine continues, in Chernihiv, Ukraine March 3, 2022.

Editorial, Op/Ed, Other

Editor’s Take: Winds of war

By Gord Gilmour March 3, 2022

As I write this editorial Kyiv, capital of Ukraine, is under attack by Russian troops, as Russian leader Vladimir Putin attempts to assert a new world order… one that happens to look a lot like the old world order. The former KGB agent-turned politician and head of the crony-capitalism oligarchy that replaced the Soviet Union

Soybeans are being planted near Husachivka, about 50 km south of Kyiv, in this file photo from April 17, 2020.

Grain Markets, Markets

War in Ukraine trumps market fundamentals

U.S. wheat values set fresh highs upon Russia’s invasion

By Phil Franz-Warkentin March 3, 2022

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine added fuel to the raging fire of the agricultural markets during the week ended Feb. 25, with any typical supply/demand fundamentals that would usually provide direction taking a back seat to the developing crisis. Ukraine and Russia are both major players in the world wheat market, and the United States wheat

Markets, News, Other

Full-scale invasion of Ukraine by Russia unlikely

Tensions are underpinning wheat prices, further escalation would likely see short-term increases

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm January 27, 2022

With at least 100,000 Russian troops deployed to the border with Ukraine, the threat of war between the two countries has sharply increased. Added to that is the effect the ramped-up tensions are having on wheat prices. An all-out invasion by Russia is something not very likely, according to Yuliia Ivaniuk, the co-ordinator at the Centre

Editorial, Opinion, Other

Editorial: On remembering

By Gord Gilmour November 9, 2017

Canada has a long history of respect and remembrance for citizens who served and fell in war. In fact it was a poem by Canadian physician John McCrae that first made the poppy an enduring symbol of remembrance, with the moving opening line: “In Flanders Fields the poppies grow, between the crosses row on row.”

Local residents (l to r) Ross McMillan, Bill Morrow, Chris Monk and Derek Jackson — who also serve on the local cemetery board — are committed to maintaining the community’s war memorial.

Local news, Other

Remembering the men of Margaret

Residents of this small southwestern Manitoba village  continue to attend to the care of their war memorial

By Lorraine Stevenson November 9, 2017

Pale November sunlight glints off the cold red granite where their names are inscribed. They were farm boys, seven sons of Margaret families, who never returned home to their small southwestern Manitoba village a century ago. Sgt. William David McKellar’s name is on this monument. He died in a sea of blood-soaked mud October 26,

After 1918 about 100 communities chose to honour their fallen with a sculpture in Carrara marble. Manitoba has one of the highest concentrations of these soldier statues in Canada. A new book documents 18 of the 33 its author counted in this province.

Country Crossroads

Our stone soldiers

A new book Remembered in Bronze and Stone profiles 130 of Canada’s bronze and stone Great War memorials, including many of these century-old heritage sites found across rural Manitoba

By Lorraine Stevenson January 20, 2017

It has been nearly a century since Foxwarren’s stone soldier began his vigil in this tiny western Manitoba village. The war memorial where he stands bears the names of 15 local young men who died in the Great War of 1914 to 1918. These stone soldier statues are a familiar sight in Manitoba, and notably

Luc Persyn displays some of his more recent findings, among them an unexploded bomb and a hand grenade.

Country Crossroads

Iron Harvest: Farming on deadly ground

One hundred years after the fact, Europe’s battlegrounds can still yield a deadly crop

By Melanie Epp November 11, 2016

October 19, 2014 was a warm and sunny day and West Flemish farmer Luc Persyn needed to do a little plowing. Little did he know that would almost kill him. When Persyn first heard the thump beneath his tractor he assumed he’d simply hit a rock, but then the cab slowly began to fill with

Members of the Holland, Man. Royal Canadian Legion Carol Kilfoyle (l) and Tamara Greenlay were part of an effort to name local waterways after fallen First W orld War soldiers.

Local news

Remembering fallen soldiers closer to home

Legion members in Holland, Man. want geographical landmarks named after lost soldiers to be accessible

By Laura Rance-Unger November 10, 2016

Members of the Royal Canadian Legion in Holland, Man. are asking why a provincial program that honours fallen soldiers by naming a geographical landmark after them can’t remember them closer to home. Les Ferris, who heads up the local branch, said they have been working with the local municipality and the provincial government in recent

Daily Network News

Speculators add to bullish bets in canola

EU crop monitor sees lower soft wheat and rapeseed yields in 2026

USDA attachés forecast some changes in China’s oilseeds, cereals

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