Sean Pratt

1 week ago | producer.com | Sean Pratt

SASKATOON — United States oil industry and biofuel groups are pushing for a massive increase in the country’s biodiesel and renewable diesel mandate. A coalition, led by the American Petroleum Institute, is asking the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to set the biomass-based diesel Renewable Volume Obligation (RVO) at 5.25 billion gallons for 2026. That would be a whopping 57 per cent increase over the 2025 mandate of 3.35 billion gallons.

1 week ago | producer.com | Sean Pratt

SASKATOON — Canadian farmers and exporters could greatly benefit from one of Donald Trump’s latest executive orders. The President of the United States signed the Restoring America’s Maritime Dominance executive order on April 9. The goal of the order is to resurrect the moribund U.S. shipbuilding industry.

2 weeks ago | producer.com | Sean Pratt

SASKATOON — The Trump tariffs that Canada’s agriculture sector had been fearing for months could turn out to be a big competitive advantage, say industry officials. U.S. President Donald Trump’s bark turned out to be worse than his bite.

2 weeks ago | producer.com | Sean Pratt

SASKATOON — North American farmers intend to plant fewer beans, but the devil is in the details. The U.S. Department of Agriculture estimates U.S. growers will plant 1.47 million acres of the crop in 2025, down four per cent from the previous year. The agency did not break down acreage by class, but analysts and industry officials have some thoughts on where the slashing will occur.

2 weeks ago | producer.com | Sean Pratt

SASKATOON — Flax stocks are low in the Black Sea region, according to analysts. Sergey Pluzhnikov, chief executive officer of Russian Pulses Analytics, said estimates vary about the size of Russia’s 2024 harvest. Russia’s Federal State Statistics Service pegs the crop at 1.35 million tonnes, the second largest in the past five seasons, while traders think it is closer to 1.2 million. Farmers planted 4.12 million acres of the oilseed in 2024, 18 percent more than the previous year.