The 2019-20
crop year is well underway in Canada, and grain shippers are watching how Canadian National (NYSE:CNI) and Canadian Pacific (NYSE:CP) will manage service levels during another year of potentially high grain volumes, particularly in the winter months when cold weather and competing commodities threaten rail performance.
Department of Agriculture's Risk Management Agency will defer accrual of interest for spring 2019
crop year insurance premiums for all agricultural producers until Nov.
ISLAMABAD -- The requirements of improved seed varieties of different pulses for
crop year 2019-20 was estimated at 9,449 as against the availability of 1,401 metric tons of same period of lat year.
More sugar imports mulled !-- -- Louise Maureen Simeon (The Philippine Star) - August 7, 2019 - 12:00am MANILA, Philippines Newly-appointed Agriculture Chief William Dar is open to allowing more sugar imports to meet demand as local production is expected to remain low in the next
crop year. While he has yet to meet with the Sugar Regulatory Administration (SRA), Dar said his goal is to always ensure food security.
"RHI produced a significantly lower volume of refined sugar from 2.2 million LKg bags last
crop year to 1.1 million LKg bags this
crop year," Tubio explained.
This is the second importation the agency has authorized for the
crop year, which began in September last year.
The Grain Plan reviews CN's performance during the previous
crop year, which was a CN all-time record, assesses CN's ability to move anticipated levels of grain during the upcoming
crop year, and it identifies specific steps that CN is taking to ensure it has the necessary capacity to move grain efficiently.
Grain harvesting continues in Azerbaijan and in this
crop year, 1,009,139.8 hectares were allocated for cereals, of which 677,793 hectares for wheat and 331,346.8 hectares for barley,Trendreports referring to the Azerbaijani Agriculture Ministry.
Planters said sugar output at the end of the current
crop year on August 31 will hit the government's forecast of 2.07 million metric tons (MMT), which will be enough to meet the country's requirement for the sweetener.
Peru, Papua New Guinea and Ecuador are also relevant producers with an April to March
crop year. Harvesting of these producers' 2019-20 crop is already underway with expectations of a fairly large off-year crop in Brazil given the generally favourable weather during the growing season.
Iran has envisaged producing at least 13.5 tons of wheat during the current
crop year, which started in late September, Esfandiaripour said.