Articles by Naveen Thukral | Alberta Farmer Express

Farmer Anil Salunkhe feeds strawberries to a cow during a 21-day nationwide lockdown to slow the spread of COVID-19 in the Satara district in India’s Maharashtra state on April 1, 2020. (Photo: Reuters/Rajendra Jadhav)

How COVID-19 is upending global food supply chains

Cows fed strawberries in India, watermelons rot in U.S., okra not reaching Canada

By Nigel Hunt, Naveen Thukral, Rajendra Jadhav, GFM Network News April 4, 2020

Satara/Singapore/London | Reuters — In the fertile Satara district in western India, farmers are putting their cattle on an unorthodox diet: Some feed iceberg lettuce to buffalo. Others feed strawberries to cows. It’s not a treat. They can either feed their crops to animals or let them spoil. And other farmers are doing just that […] Read more

Reginald Conyers, a traveling busker, plays the trumpet outside a Safeway while people observing social distancing wait in line to enter the store in Oakland on March 20, 2020. (Photo: Reuters/Kate Munsch)

Crops, Markets, Reuters

Panic buying, lockdowns may drive world food inflation

World has ample grain and oilseed supplies, FAO and analysts say

By Naveen Thukral, GFM Network News March 23, 2020

Singapore | Reuters — Lockdowns and panic food buying due to the coronavirus pandemic could ignite world food inflation even though there are ample supplies of staple grains and oilseeds in key exporting nations, a senior economist at FAO and agricultural analysts said. The world’s richest nations poured unprecedented aid into the global economy as […] Read more

(Mark Wilson photo courtesy Louis Dreyfus Co.)

Crops, Markets, Reuters, Soybeans

U.S.-China trade fears halt soybean imports

By Dominique Patton, Naveen Thukral April 26, 2018

Singapore/Beijing | Reuters — China’s purchases of U.S. soybeans have come to a grinding halt, trade and industry sources say, as fears of further action by Beijing to curb imports of U.S. crops following last week’s anti-dumping move on sorghum rattles the agriculture industry. Buyers from China, which takes 60 per cent of soybeans traded […] Read more

Reuters, Soybeans

Brazil cuts into U.S. soybean market share in China

By Naveen Thukral November 3, 2017

Reuters – Brazil is expected to win a larger share of China’s soybean imports in coming months, hitting U.S. exporters during the peak marketing season for their most valuable farm product as the world grapples with a fifth consecutive bumper crop. China is expected to buy about five million tonnes of soybeans from Brazil for […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Reuters

U.S. grains: Soybeans fall on Argentina weather

By Gus Trompiz, Naveen Thukral January 25, 2017

Reuters — U.S. soybean futures fell to a 1-1/2-week low on Wednesday on an improved South American crop weather outlook while corn edged higher on export demand, traders said. Wheat sagged on ample old-crop supplies and a lack of supportive news. Chicago Board of Trade March soybean futures settled down 3-1/4 cents at $10.55-1/4 per […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Reuters

U.S. grains: Wheat rises on dry weather worries

By Gus Trompiz, Naveen Thukral October 10, 2016

Paris/Singapore | Reuters –– Chicago wheat futures rose on Monday, snapping a two-session fall, as dry weather in some U.S. and European wheat belts stirred concern in a market that has been weighed down by the prospect of record global supplies this season. Soybeans lost more ground as U.S. farmers are expected to boost the […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Reuters

U.S. grains: Wheat rises for a second day on short-covering

By Naveen Thukral, Sybille De La Hamaide September 2, 2016

Singapore/Paris | Reuters, 7:01 a.m. CT –– Chicago wheat futures prices rose for a second session on Friday with short-covering ahead of the Labour Day holiday weekend supporting prices, although the trend was set for a second week of declines amid plentiful world supplies. Corn was up for a second day, recovering from a multi-year […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Reuters, Soybeans

China’s farmers switch to soy amid corn market reform

By Naveen Thukral, Niu Shuping April 4, 2016

Reuters — Wang Zhonghai, a 49-year-old farmer in China’s top corn producing province of Heilongjiang, plans to switch 80 per cent of his land to cultivate soybeans this year as the government ends a near-decade-old corn price support scheme. China announced last week it will stop its corn stockpiling program and allow markets to set […] Read more

Equatorial sea surface temperatures (SSTs) have run above average for the past four weeks, the U.S. NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center noted Monday. (CPC.ncep.noaa.gov)

Crops, Markets, Reuters, Weather

El Nino has emerged, Asia braces for crop damage

By Naveen Thukral May 12, 2015

Singapore | Reuters –– In 2009, the El Nino brought the worst drought in four decades to India. It razed wheat fields in Australia and damaged crops across Asia. Food prices surged. A closely watched forecast by Japan on Tuesday confirmed its return this year. A strong El Nino will roil economies that are heavily […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Reuters, Spring Wheat

China expected to boost imports of protein-rich wheat

By Naveen Thukral, Niu Shuping January 6, 2015

Beijing/Singapore | Reuters — Chinese wheat buyers are likely to step up imports of higher quality grains to meet a domestic shortfall even though total overseas purchases are forecast to tumble this year due to bumper production at home, analysts and traders said. China, the world’s biggest wheat producer and consumer, has seen output climb […] Read more

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How COVID-19 is upending global food supply chains

Panic buying, lockdowns may drive world food inflation

U.S.-China trade fears halt soybean imports

Brazil cuts into U.S. soybean market share in China

U.S. grains: Soybeans fall on Argentina weather

U.S. grains: Wheat rises on dry weather worries

U.S. grains: Wheat rises for a second day on short-covering

China’s farmers switch to soy amid corn market reform

El Nino has emerged, Asia braces for crop damage

China expected to boost imports of protein-rich wheat

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