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

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

A vessel is seen arriving at Odesa in southern Ukraine under the Black Sea Grain Initiative on April 12, 2023.

News

Insurers, Ukraine launch war-risk ship insurance

Program announced in effort to cut grain costs

By Carolyn Cohn, Jonathan Saul, Pavel Polityuk November 27, 2023

Reuters – Insurance broker Marsh, Lloyd’s of London insurers and Ukrainian state banks have launched a program to cut the cost of claims for damage to ships and crew transporting grain through the Black Sea corridor, Marsh said Nov. 15. Kyiv launched a “humanitarian corridor” in August for ships bound for Africa and Asia to

Markets, News

Russia eyes eastern trade routes

By Olzhas Auyezov, Tamara Vaal November 16, 2023

Reuters – Russian President Vladimir Putin called for the development of wheat and fertilizer cargo transport routes in Asia during a visit to Kazakhstan Nov. 9 as Moscow looks for export routes due to Western sanctions. Chairing a conference on agricultural co-operation with Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, Putin said Russia would have about 60 million

Grain Markets, Markets

Interest rates remain of interest to grain traders

Expert's Radar: A rising U.S. dollar may drag on futures

By Phil Franz-Warkentin November 14, 2023

Much of the attention in North American grain and oilseed markets has shifted to production prospects in South America, as wheat fields develop in Argentina and farmers in Brazil work on seeding their next soybean and corn crops. Weather there will be a major factor on traders’ radar over the next few months, but larger financial and geopolitical issues will

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

By Phil Franz-Warkentin October 23, 2023

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

Daily Network News

Huge crops in South America says analyst

U.S. livestock: ‘Cattle on feed’ report supports prices

U.S. grains: Wheat trades near contract lows under ample global supply

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