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Category: Agriculture

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  • Agriculture

Food crisis fuels fears of protectionism compounding shortages

A growing world food crisis is precipitating protectionist moves by countries which are likely to compound the problem and could lead to a wider trade war, business leaders and policymakers Continue Reading

Posted On : 25 May 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Agriculture
  • Ukraine

Ukraine’s embattled farmers running on empty as world faces food crisis

After making it through the spring planting season, sometimes with the help of bulletproof vests and helmets, Ukraine’s farmers are facing another challenge – finding enough diesel for the harvest Continue Reading

Posted On : 25 May 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Agriculture
  • Shipping
  • Ukraine

Russia ready to set up corridor for ships leaving Ukraine with food, with conditions

A solution to food problem requires vast approach – Moscow This includes lifting of some sanctions from Russia – Moscow Moscow is in touch with the UN on the issue Continue Reading

Posted On : 25 May 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Agriculture
  • Ukraine

U.S. intelligence document shows Russian naval blockade of Ukraine that has sparked food crisis

Newly declassified U.S. intelligence shows that a Russian naval blockade has halted maritime trade at Ukrainian ports, in what world leaders call a deliberate attack on the global food supply Continue Reading

Posted On : 25 May 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Agriculture
  • India

India to Limit Sugar Exports in Risk to Global Food Prices

India is set to restrict sugar exports as a precautionary measure to safeguard its own food supplies, another act of protectionism after banning wheat sales just over a week ago. Continue Reading

Posted On : 24 May 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Agriculture

‘Millions’ at risk of death as Ukraine war hits food supplies, Egypt warns

Egypt’s finance minister has warned that “millions” could die because of the food price crisis triggered by the Ukraine war, echoing warnings made by the UN and G7 countries as Continue Reading

Posted On : 22 May 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Agriculture
  • China

Record Food Costs Throw Spotlight on How China Will Feed Itself

A sign encouraging people not to waste food at a restaurant in Handan, China, in 2020.Source: AFP/Getty Images China has been long obsessed with finding ways to ensure there is Continue Reading

Posted On : 22 May 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Agriculture
  • Canada

Crop Land ‘Deteriorating’ in Canada as Excess Rain Hinders Planting

Farmers in parts of Canada’s Prairies are struggling to get crops in the ground as heavy rains continue to wallop the eastern region in the latest threat to global grain Continue Reading

Posted On : 19 May 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Agriculture

World’s Food Problems Piling Up as India Restricts Wheat Exports

India’s move to restrict wheat exports is set to reverberate through global agricultural markets, exposing just how tight global supplies are after the war in Ukraine and threatening to drive Continue Reading

Posted On : 15 May 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Agriculture

Global wheat crop likely to fall for first time in four years, US forecasts

Global wheat production is likely to fall for the first time in four years, according to a closely watched US government forecast of the upcoming crop season, confirming fears of Continue Reading

Posted On : 14 May 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Agriculture

Rising Food Prices Roil Developing World

Soaring food prices are triggering shortages and protests across the developing world as disruption from the Ukraine war adds to existing strains on global supplies of grains, meat and other Continue Reading

Posted On : 14 May 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Agriculture
  • Russia

Russia talks of record wheat crop while world mulls output fall

Putin says Russia’s wheat crop could exceed 2020’s record Russian yield boosted by lower winterkill USDA sees Ukraine’s wheat output down 35% Russia could be on course for a record Continue Reading

Posted On : 14 May 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Agriculture

Global agriculture markets jittery on worsening food inflation outlook

Civilization is only nine meals away from anarchy. This famous line hits home in the current play as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine set open a can of worms for agriculture Continue Reading

Posted On : 13 May 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Agriculture
  • Russia
  • Ukraine

Russia seizes more than 500,000 mt of grain from Ukraine: ministry

Grain consumed in occupied Ukraine, exported from Crimea: sources Agricultural equipment also said taken by Russians Russia has taken more than 500,000 mt of grain, worth more than $100 million, Continue Reading

Posted On : 13 May 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Agriculture
  • India

Production, logistical concerns cast shadow over India’s wheat export potential

Traders see output falling to 105 million-106 million mt in MY 2022-23 MY 2022-23 exports seen declining to 7 million-8 million mt Export prices rise on concerns over supply tightness, Continue Reading

Posted On : 12 May 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Agriculture

Soaring food, fuel ramp up social unrest risk for emerging markets -report

 Rising fuel and food prices look set to stoke an “inevitable” rise in civil unrest, with developing middle-income countries such as Brazil or Egypt, particularly at risk, a report by Continue Reading

Posted On : 11 May 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Africa
  • Agriculture

As Wheat Prices Soar, Africa Pivots to Cheaper Alternatives

Wheat sacks in the Ludhiana district of Punjab, India. Global wheat prices are so high that African consumers are starting to ditch the grain from their diet. Food producers in Continue Reading

Posted On : 8 May 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Agriculture

Food Prices Hold Near Record as Ukraine War Upends Trade

 Global food prices held near a record as crop trade is disrupted by the war in Ukraine, exacerbating tight supplies and stoking inflation. Russia’s invasion has reduced exports from Ukraine Continue Reading

Posted On : 6 May 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Agriculture
  • USA

US Senators urge ocean carriers to increase agricultural export liftings

 Request concurrent with FMC audit into carrier export practices Letter comes amid shipper-led complaints against carriers US FAK import rates remain eight-fold higher than exports US Senators Dianne Feinstein and Continue Reading

Posted On : 5 May 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Agriculture
  • Nigeria

Exclusive: Nigeria buys emergency Canadian potash to replace lost Russian supply

Nigeria had to buy emergency supplies of Canadian potash in April after the country was unable to import the key fertilizer from Russia due to the impact of Western sanctions, Continue Reading

Posted On : 4 May 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Agriculture
  • India

Extreme heat waves seen putting pressure on India’s wheat output, export potential

Output may decline by 5 million-6 million mt: government estimates Heat waves seen hitting yields in key states like Punjab, Haryana Dwindling output may limit export opportunity India’s wheat output Continue Reading

Posted On : 4 May 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Agriculture

Facing a Wheat Crisis, Countries Race to Remake an Entire Market on the Fly

The war in Ukraine was barely a month old when Augusto Bassanini, chief executive of United Grain Corp., received an unusual signal from the global wheat market. The Washington-based grain Continue Reading

Posted On : 3 May 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Agriculture

Fertilizer sector set for biggest profits in years on Russia-Ukraine conflict

Fertilizer makers are set to post their biggest quarterly profits in years, following a supply squeeze of essential crop nutrients due to the Ukraine crisis, according to analysts. Top fertilizer Continue Reading

Posted On : 3 May 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Agriculture

Can the World Feed Itself? Historic Fertilizer Crunch Threatens Food Security

A run-up in prices and shortage of man-made nutrients are forcing the agriculture industry to adapt, and the impact could be severe. Soybeans during a harvest on a farm near Continue Reading

Posted On : 2 May 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Agriculture

Record Fertilizer Prices Drive Investors, Farmers to Microbes

Some farmers like Dan Hansen in Avoca, Iowa, are exploring so-called clean alternatives to nitrogen-based fertilizers. Startups marketing alternative crop fertilizers said they are gaining traction among U.S. farmers and Continue Reading

Posted On : 1 May 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Agriculture

Sunflower Oil ‘Vanishes’ as Ukraine War Grinds On

Several British supermarkets have joined other chains around the world in asking shoppers to limit their cooking oil purchases, as supplies dwindle and prices rise. Global cooking oil shortages, exacerbated Continue Reading

Posted On : 1 May 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Agriculture
  • USA

Train Delays Bog Down U.S. Farm Sector

Every day, millions of sailors, truck drivers, longshoremen, warehouse workers and delivery drivers keep mountains of goods moving into stores and homes to meet consumers’ increasing expectations of convenience. But Continue Reading

Posted On : 29 Apr 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Agriculture

Corn and Soybeans Near Record Prices, Push Food Costs Higher

Corn and soybeans prices have risen nearly to records, signaling higher food inflation to come. Global food prices had already reached records when Russia invaded Ukraine in late February and Continue Reading

Posted On : 28 Apr 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Agriculture
  • Nigeria

Nigeria: As Indonesia Bans Palm Oil Exports, Nigeria Unable to Seize Lucrative Opportunity

Oil Palm Nigeria was once the world’s largest palm oil producer but today, it produces too little it imports. Indonesia’s surprise ban on palm oil exports offers Nigeria a lucrative Continue Reading

Posted On : 27 Apr 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Agriculture

Russia’s war heats up cooking oil prices in global squeeze

For months, Istanbul restaurant Tarihi Balikca tried to absorb the surging cost of the sunflower oil its cooks use to fry fish, squid and mussels. But in early April, with Continue Reading

Posted On : 26 Apr 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Agriculture
  • China

The Rich, Black Soil That Fed a Growing China Is Washing Away

 In China, the fertile soil is a product of the region’s geography and its special history. A Mao-era campaign to end famine tapped the country’s most fertile land. Now President Continue Reading

Posted On : 25 Apr 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Agriculture
  • United Kingdom

Supermarkets Limit Cooking Oil Purchases After Supplies Hit by Ukraine War

 Supermarkets across the UK have placed limits on how much cooking oil customers can buy due to supply-chain problems caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Tesco is allowed three items Continue Reading

Posted On : 23 Apr 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Agriculture

Food Prices Are Soaring As Russia’s War In Ukraine Persists

Global food prices have just hit their highest recorded levels. Russia and Ukraine account for as much as 30% of global wheat exports, and 20% of maize exports. Analysts at Continue Reading

Posted On : 22 Apr 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Agriculture
  • China

Market forecasts China’s 2022 soybean demand falling up to 6% as feed requirements dip

Demand for soybeans from China — the world’s biggest importer of soybeans — is forecast to fall 3.5%-6.1% year on year in 2022 due to lower demand from the downstream Continue Reading

Posted On : 21 Apr 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Agriculture
  • Prices

Corn Rallies Further From Decade High as War Stokes Supply Fears

Corn extended a rally from a decade high on concern over dwindling supplies amid the war in Ukraine and slower planting in the U.S. Futures in Chicago rose as much Continue Reading

Posted On : 19 Apr 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Agriculture
  • Russia
  • USA

The Big 4 of agriculture unlikely to exit Russia despite mounting pressure

Everything can be politicized, except food. This holds more relevance amid widespread protest and collective boycott calls against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine since Feb. 24 . With hundreds of multinational Continue Reading

Posted On : 19 Apr 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Agriculture
  • China

Shanghai’s Frozen Meat, Seafood Imports Stall on Port Congestion

 AP Moller-Maersk A/S, one of the biggest shipping lines in the world, has stopped bookings to ship refrigerated containers into Shanghai as a strict Covid lockdown stalls the trucking of Continue Reading

Posted On : 15 Apr 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Agriculture

The Fertilizer Shock Might Change Agriculture—for the Better

 James Cox counts himself lucky. The owner of a 687-acre farm in Gloucestershire, a bucolic county in the southwest of England known for its quaint villages and rolling landscape, bought Continue Reading

Posted On : 13 Apr 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Agriculture

Russian war worsens fertilizer crunch, risking food supplies

Monica Kariuki is about ready to give up on farming. What is driving her off her 10 acres of land outside Nairobi isn’t bad weather, pests or blight — the Continue Reading

Posted On : 12 Apr 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Agriculture
  • Middle East

Rising Food Costs Push Arab World’s Vulnerable to Breaking Point

Seated around the dining table, the family of four stares blankly at pictures of food sketched on the tablecloth. “Tonight,” the father says, “we’re coloring for dinner.” The scene in Continue Reading

Posted On : 11 Apr 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Agriculture
  • Prices

Food Prices Jump Most on Record as War Sparks Supply Chaos

Dire Consequences of Rising Food Prices Global food prices are surging at the fastest pace ever as the war in Ukraine chokes crop supplies, piling more inflationary pain on consumers Continue Reading

Posted On : 9 Apr 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Agriculture
  • Prices

Food prices soar to record levels on Ukraine war disruptions

Prices for food commodities like grains and vegetable oils reached their highest levels ever last month largely because of Russia’s war in Ukraine and the “massive supply disruptions” it is Continue Reading

Posted On : 9 Apr 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Agriculture

USDA cuts 2021-22 global wheat trade estimate to 200.1 million mt

EU, Ukraine, US wheat exports view, hikes Russia exports Keeps global output view largely steady, cuts ending stocks Hikes global wheat estimates by 4 million mt The US Department of Continue Reading

Posted On : 9 Apr 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Agriculture
  • Ukraine

Half of Harvests in Crop Giant Ukraine Could Be Wiped Out by War

How War in Ukraine Complicates the Global Grain Trade Sign up here to get the latest updates on the Russian invasion of Ukraine. You can also follow us on Telegram Continue Reading

Posted On : 9 Apr 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Afghanistan
  • Agriculture

Climate Change Is Making Afghanistan’s Hunger Crisis Worse

 The worst drought in two decades, punishing sanctions and soaring wheat prices due to the war in Ukraine are making food insecurity more severe Drought had already devastated Allawddin Rahimi’s Continue Reading

Posted On : 6 Apr 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Agriculture
  • China

China’s zero-Covid policy risks causing agricultural crisis and food shortages

According to official data, as many as a third of farmers in northeastern Jilin, Liaoning and Heilongjiang provinces have insufficient agricultural inputs after authorities sealed off villages to fight the Continue Reading

Posted On : 6 Apr 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Agriculture

Wheat Extends Surge on Potential for Further Sanctions on Russia

 Wheat futures in Chicago extended their climb from the lowest close in a month on Friday on prospects for more sanctions on Russia in response to allegations of war crimes Continue Reading

Posted On : 5 Apr 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Agriculture

The $120 Billion Global Grain Trade Is Being Redrawn by Russia’s War in Ukraine

A cargo ship at the Port of Mariupol, loaded with grain destined for Turkey, in the month before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Deliveries from Ukraine and Russia, which account for Continue Reading

Posted On : 5 Apr 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Agriculture

How War, Oil and Ships Are Building a Hunger Crisis

Soybeans during a harvest on a farm near Brasilia. Even before Russia invaded Ukraine, food prices had been rising around the world, driven by the higher shipping costs, energy inflation Continue Reading

Posted On : 2 Apr 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Agriculture
  • California

Drought-Struck California Wants to Pay Farmers to Cut Plantings

California, gripped entirely in drought, proposed a $2.9 billion plan to pay farmers to reduce some of their plantings in an effort to better manage water resources. The voluntary agreement Continue Reading

Posted On : 1 Apr 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple

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