It plans to invest “substantial capital” to bring the mine back into production, the company said in a statement.

The acquisition includes a processing plant in Matheson, Ontario, and various other mineral properties in the province. Infracon chief executive officer Geoff Hampson will head the operation through a subsidiary company called KAP Minerals.

Agrium closed the open-pit mine around 2013, according to a report in Northern Ontario Business. At the time, Agrium said the mine would be nearing depletion.

Infracon Construction said KAP Minerals plans to commercialize the Apatite deposit, a high-quality phosphate deposit in the Cargill Township Carbonatite Complex.

The company said it plans to work with Taykwa Tagamou Nation to establish a benefits agreement to provide employment and contracting opportunities for First Nation-owned businesses in the region.

Earlier this year, Fox River Resources Corp proposed the Martison Phosphate Project northeast of Hearst, Ontario.

Canada depends on imports of phosphorus to meet domestic need. Western Canada consumes about 892,000 tonnes of actual phosphorus per year, while Eastern Canada consumes about 202,000 tones of actual phosphorus, according to a 2022 report from the Canadian Agri-Food Policy Institute (CAPI).

In that report, CAPI said the limited supplies and suppliers of phosphate fertilizers are “increasingly perceived as a source of vulnerability in a more volatile world.”

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The current system, where it’s unknown if products work or not, is a cost and a risk for Canadian growers, the NFU says in a report published Oct. 21.

“’Farmer buy-and-try’ should no longer be the norm for non-fertilizer supplements,” said James Hannay, an NFU policy analyst.

“Farmers should not bear the costs of testing non-fertilizer supplements, nor can farmers deliver statistically significant results to prove that they work.”

The NFU report comes at a time when hundreds of novel supplements are now available to Canadian producers.

There are bio-stimulants, bio-fertilizers, seaweed extracts, humic acids and many other products on the market, with more being introduced every month.

Along with the hundreds of products, there are dozens of claims on the benefits of fertilizer supplements.

“Biologicals like nitrogen-fixing bacteria can … reduce the need for applied N fertilizer without reducing yields, a solution that can help farmers with their productivity and sustainability goals,” says the website of one firm, promoting its bio-fertilizer.

It’s difficult for farmers to make sense of these claims and all the noise.

Prior to 2013, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency tested fertilizer supplements to check their efficacy, and the NFU is calling on the feds to restore those regulations.

“Given that supplements can have multiple active ingredients and modes of action, they are best defined based on their claimed benefits to agriculture; it is therefore essential that these claims be tested and the data be made publicly available so that farmers can make informed choices,” the NFU says in a summary of its report.

There is testing and publicly available data on the efficacy of fertilizer supplements, but producers do have to search for the results.

For instance, the Western Applied Research Corporation (WARC), a non-profit in Saskatchewan, has tested nitrogen-fixing biological products and their efficacy on spring wheat. The results are available on the WARC website.

Manitoba Pulse & Soybean Growers has also looked at the efficacy of biological products as part of its on-farm research network. Those results have been presented publicly and can be found on the MPSG website.

So, efficacy testing of fertilizer supplements is happening in Canada, but the CFIA isn’t leading the charge.

The NFU argues that handing this responsibility back to the CFIA will actually be helpful for the supplements industry.

“Farmers will have independent validation and quantification of claimed benefits, enabling them to … purchase products with confidence,” the NFU says.

“Non-performing products will be removed from the marketplace, increasing trust in the entire supplements sector.”

The NFU is hoping other farm groups will join the effort to restore efficacy testing in Canada. It is hoping that the program will be included in the 2025 federal budget.

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Moscow suggested that if demands to improve exports of its own grain and fertilizer were met it would consider resurrecting the Black Sea agreement. However, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said that a U.N. pact that helped Russia to make shipments over the past year was also terminated.

“Only upon receipt of concrete results, and not promises and assurances, will Russia be ready to consider restoring the deal,” said Russia’s foreign ministry.

Russia told the U.N. shipping agency – the International Maritime Organization (IMO) – that its “guarantees for the safety of navigation” had been revoked and that “proactive necessary actions and response measures to neutralize threats posed by the Kiev regime in the area will be taken.”

Insurers on Monday were reviewing whether to freeze cover for any ships willing to sail to Ukraine. The reaction on the grains market was modest, with U.S. wheat futures Wv1 up about 3% while U.S. corn futures Cv1 rose nearly 1%.

“I think there is market belief that Russia and the EU have large supplies of wheat which can meet world demand in the coming months, with harvests arriving,” one German trader said.

The Black Sea deal was brokered by the U.N. and Turkey in July last year to combat a global food crisis worsened by Russia’s February 2022 invasion of Ukraine. Ukraine and Russia are among the world’s top grain exporters.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Monday everything must be done so that the Black Sea grain export corridor continues to be used, his spokesperson said.

“Today’s decision by the Russian Federation will strike a blow to people in need everywhere,” U.N. chief Guterres told reporters.

The U.N. would continue trying to ensure unimpeded access to global markets for food products and fertilizers from Ukraine and Russia, Guterres said.

U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, described Moscow’s move as an “act of cruelty.”

Last ship has sailed

Nearly 33 million metric tons of corn, wheat and other grains have been exported by Ukraine under the arrangement. The last ship left Ukraine under the deal on Sunday.

To convince Russia to agree to the Black Sea deal, a three-year memorandum of understanding was struck in July 2022 under which U.N. officials agreed to help Russia get its food and fertilizer exports to foreign markets.

Russia’s main demands were the resumption of its ammonia exports through a pipeline to the Ukrainian port of Odesa and the reconnection of its state agricultural bank Rosselkhozbank to the SWIFT international payments system. It was cut off by the European Union in June last year after the invasion.

Guterres said on Monday that the U.N. had managed to create a “bespoke payments mechanism” for the Russian Agricultural Bank through U.S. bank JPMorgan Chase & CoJPM.N and “recently brokered a concrete proposal” with the European Commission to enable a Rosselkhozbank subsidiary to regain access to SWIFT.

But he signalled that all those efforts would end because Russia’s withdrawal from the Black Sea deal also terminated its pact with the U.N. on its own exports, under which Moscow had committed to “facilitate the unimpeded export of food, sunflower oil, and fertilizers from Ukrainian-controlled Black Sea Ports.”

Global hunger

Guterres had made a final attempt to save the Black Sea grain deal by writing to Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday last week to ask him to extend it in exchange for the cooperation of the European Commission on Rosselkhozbank.

In a letter to Guterres on Monday, Russia said the options presented “are not feasible and will not ensure uninterrupted cross-border financial transactions,” Russia’s deputy U.N. envoy Dmitry Polyanskiy posted on Twitter. He said the letter informed Guterres that Moscow was terminating the Black Sea grain deal.

European Union Commission President Ursula von der Leyen called Russia’s decision a “cynical move”, adding that the EU would continue to work towards ensuring food security for poor countries.

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said he believed Putin wants the continuation of the deal, adding that he will discuss it when they meet in person in August.

Russia had agreed three times in the past year to extend the Black Sea deal, but also briefly suspended its participation at the end of October in response to a drone attack on its fleet in Crimea.

There was concern about the impact the expiry of the pact would have on feeding the hungry worldwide.

Under the deal, the U.N. said its World Food Program (WFP) has procured 80% of its wheat so far in 2023 from Ukraine – up from 50% in 2021 and 2022. The WFP has shipped about 725,000 metric tons of Ukrainian wheat to Afghanistan, Sudan, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia and Yemen to fight hunger.

“Rations are being cut to children every day now across the world – it is utterly dramatic and this (deal) was one of the few glimmers of hope in this age of Biblical starvation,” said Jan Egeland, Secretary General of the Norwegian Refugee Council.

— Reporting by Reuters reporters; writing by Guy Faulconbridge and Michelle Nichols.

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With 13 days remaining until the expiry of the deal, which has allowed Ukraine to export grain from its Black Sea ports despite Russia’s invasion, Moscow said there had been no progress on any of its key demands, including the banking issue.

The Financial Times reported on Monday that the European Union was considering a proposal to allow Russia’s Rosselkhozbank to set up a subsidiary that could connect to SWIFT.

But Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova dismissed the idea as “deliberately unworkable,” saying it would take many months to set up such a unit and another three months to connect to SWIFT.

She also rejected a U.N. attempt to create an alternative payment channel between Rosselkhozbank and U.S. bank JP Morgan.

“There is no real replacement for SWIFT, and cannot be,” Zakharova said in a statement.

Britain’s U.N. Ambassador Barbara Woodward said on Monday she was not confident the grain deal would be renewed.

“The U.N. is doing all it can and we will do all we can. We’ve already worked very closely with the City of London to enable a very complex payment system for grain in order to make it work and continue to get food on people’s tables,” she said.

Russia says the severing of the bank’s access to SWIFT is one of the obstacles facing its own exports of food and fertilizer, and that it cannot keep renewing the Black Sea deal unless those issues are addressed.

‘Fertilizer crunch’

The stakes are high. The United Nations says the deal has so far allowed the export of more than 32 million metric tonnes of food from three Ukrainian Black Sea ports to 45 countries on three continents.

It describes the Black Sea grain deal and the efforts to facilitate Russian grain and fertilizer exports as “a lifeline for global food security.”

Any disruption or halt to such trade could aggravate a food crisis in the poorest countries and push global prices higher. Since March 2022, global food prices have dropped by 22%, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization.

Russia has made previous threats to quit the deal, but its rhetoric has hardened since then.

Russia’s foreign ministry said Tuesday it was “obvious there are no grounds” to extend the deal beyond July 17 and that Russia was doing everything necessary for all ships covered by the deal to leave the Black Sea before that date.

It also said the deal had delivered Ukrainian grain to “well-fed” countries but failed to help those most in need.

The five poorest countries — Ethiopia, Yemen, Afghanistan, Sudan and Somalia — received only 2.6 per cent of the grain shipped, it said, while the situation regarding Russian grain and fertilizer exports had “continued to worsen.”

The U.N. said the World Food Programme has bought more than 700,000 tonnes of grain under the Black Sea deal for aid operations in those countries — matching the volumes it procured from Ukraine in 2021.

But it has acknowledged that a “fertilizer crunch remains a reality for farmers in certain developing countries, against the backdrop of the cost-of-living crisis.”

The U.N. said it is continuing to work on ways to facilitate Russian fertilizer exports including: a trade finance platform with the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank); facilities related to banking and insurance; and the resumption of key transshipment routes for fertilizer and ammonia.

— Reporting for Reuters by Felix Light and Olzhas Auyezov; writing by Mark Trevelyan and Michelle Nichols.

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The Russian invasion has left Ukraine seriously short of finances, seeds and crop protection products, which could have a negative impact on crop yields this year.

APK-Inform said farmers had 9,356 tonnes of herbicides and pesticides, which is 34.7 per cent of the declared 26,926 tonnes needed for the first half of this year.

The volume included 6,231 tonnes of herbicides, or about 36 per cent of the volume needed.

The ministry said the most difficult situation is Kyiv and Lviv regions.

Denys Marchuk, deputy chair of the Ukrainian Agrarian Council, said a lack of funds is the main problem for farmers this spring.

“Farmers will not be able to buy everything they need — seeds, fertilizers, fuel, crop protection products. Yields will be much lower and this will affect our export potential,”  he told an online briefing.

“It is important to find money to lend to farmers,” Marchuk added.

The council said last week agricultural companies, which plant most of Ukraine’s fields, are 40 billion hryvnia (C$1.49 billion) short of the funds they need to carry out spring work.

The ministry has not yet published its forecast for the 2023 grain harvest while the national academy of agricultural science said the harvest may fall 37 per cent to 34 million tonnes.

The 2022 grain harvest fell to around 54 million tonnes from a record 86 million in 2021.

Output was hit by hostilities in Ukraine’s eastern, northern and southern regions following Russia’s invasion.

— Reporting for Reuters by Pavel Polityuk in Kyiv.

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Ynsect breeds mealworms that produce proteins for aquaculture, livestock, pet food, fertilizers and human nutrition.

The company signed the U.S. agreement with flour milling company Ardent Mills to build a factory next to one of its U.S. Midwest sites — yet to be determined — by the end of 2023.

The two new sites will cost at least 100 million euros (about C$144.2 million) each and output should eventually rise to about 200,000 tonnes of insect-based ingredients per year, Ynsect CEO Antoine Hubert told Reuters.

Ardent Mills, a joint venture between ConAgra Foods, Cargill and CHS Inc., would supply milling byproducts to feed the insects.

In Mexico, Ynsect teamed up with food and general services provider Corporativo Kosmos. The factory would be located near Mexico City and export to the U.S. market.

“The U.S. market is strategic for us, it is the first market in the world for pet food, pork and poultry feed, fertilizers and on sports and human nutrition they largely stand out,” said Hubert.

Ynsect entered the U.S. market in late 2021 through a deal with Pure Simple to supply premium food for dogs. In March it purchased mealworm producer Jord Producers, allowing it to enter the fast-growing backyard chicken feed sector.

The company is discussing about 10 other deals in Europe, the Middle East and Asia and expects additional agreements next year.

“In 2023 we estimate that we should have additional financing for Ynsect because today we don’t have the means to finance new projects,” Hubert said.

Ynsect built what it says will be the world’s largest vertical farm in Amiens, northern France, which started earlier this year.

Ynsect has so far raised about US$450 million, mainly used to build its giga-farm in Amiens and for its recent acquisitions, which also include the takeover of Dutch firm Protifarm last year.

It is considering a stock market listing in appropriate conditions.

“It would make a lot of sense on many aspects including reinforcing our credibility towards other industrial partners,” Hubert said.

— Sybille de La Hamaide is a Reuters commodities correspondent in Paris.

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Biden asked lawmakers to adopt the tentative deal announced in September “without any modifications or delay — to avert a potentially crippling national rail shutdown” and added that up to 765,000 Americans “could be put out of work in the first two weeks alone.”

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said lawmakers would take up legislation this week “to prevent a catastrophic nationwide rail strike, which would grind our economy to a halt.”

On Monday, more than 400 groups called on Congress to intervene in the railroad labour standoff that threatens to idle shipments of food and fuel and strand travelers while inflicting billions of dollars of economic damage.

A rail traffic stoppage could freeze almost 30 per cent of U.S. cargo shipments by weight, stoke inflation and cost the U.S. economy as much as $2 billion per day by unleashing a cascade of transport woes affecting the energy, agriculture, manufacturing, healthcare and retail sectors (all figures US$).

“A rail shutdown would devastate our economy,” Biden said. “Without freight rail, many U.S. industries would shut down… Communities could lose access to chemicals necessary to ensure clean drinking water. Farms and ranches across the country could be unable to feed their livestock.”

Biden hailed the contract deal that includes a 24 per cent compounded wage increase over a five-year period from 2020 through 2024 and five annual $1,000 lump-sum payments.

Workers in four unions have rejected the tentative deal, while workers in eight unions have approved it.

Labor Secretary Marty Walsh, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack have been involved in discussions with the rail industry, unions and agriculture industry stakeholders.

Senator Roger Wicker, the top Republican on the U.S. Senate’s commerce committee, praised Biden’s call to Congress to act and said no one side was fully happy with the compromise contract deal “but the responsible thing to do is avoid the strike.”

The Association of American Railroads said “congressional action to prevent a work stoppage in this manner is appropriate… No one benefits from a rail work stoppage — not our customers, not rail employees and not the American economy.”

In a letter on Monday, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, National Association of Manufacturers, National Retail Federation, American Petroleum Institute, National Restaurant Association, American Trucking Associations and other groups warned that impacts of a potential strike could be felt as soon as Dec. 5.

Biden said Congress “should set aside politics and partisan division and deliver for the American people. Congress should get this bill to my desk well in advance of Dec. 9 so we can avoid disruption.”

“The risks to our nation’s economy and communities simply make a national rail strike unacceptable,” says the letter to congressional leaders first reported by Reuters, warning a strike could halt passenger railroad Amtrak and commuter rail services that “would disrupt up to seven million travelers a day.”

Biden’s Presidential Emergency Board in August released the framework for the tentative deal forged in September between major railroads and a dozen unions representing 115,000 workers.

Those carriers include Union Pacific, BNSF, CSX, Norfolk Southern and Kansas City Southern (KCS). Canadian National Railway (CN) and the unions representing its U.S. employees are also parties to the bargaining; Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) and its U.S. employees are not.

Unions and railroads have until Dec. 9 to resolve differences. If they do not, workers could strike or railroads could lock out employees — unless Congress intervenes. But railroads would halt hazardous materials shipments at least four days ahead of a strike deadline.

— David Shepardson is a Reuters correspondent covering the U.S. transportation sector from Washington, D.C.

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The agreement, initially reached in July, created a protected transit corridor and was designed to alleviate shortages by allowing exports to resume from three ports in Ukraine, a major producer of grains and oilseeds.

“I welcome the agreement by all parties to continue the Black Sea grain initiative to facilitate the safe navigation of export of grain, foodstuffs and fertilizers from Ukraine,” UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said in a statement.

The UN, he said, was also “fully committed to removing the remaining obstacles to exporting food and fertilizers from (Russia)” — a part of the deal Moscow sees as critical.

Russia’s foreign ministry confirmed the extension of the deal for 120 days starting from Nov. 18, without any changes to the current one.

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said that since Aug 1, more than 450 ships had carried 11 million tonnes of Ukrainian grain and other foodstuffs around the world.

“Tens of millions of people, primarily in African countries, have been saved from starvation … food prices are significantly lower than they would be without our food exports,” he said in a video address.

The export of Russian ammonia via a pipeline to the Black Sea has not yet been agreed as part of the renewal, two sources familiar with discussions told Reuters. But Russia would continue efforts to resume those exports, one of the sources added. Ammonia is an important ingredient in fertilizer.

Zelenskiy said in September he would only back the idea of reopening ammonia exports through Ukraine if Moscow handed back prisoners of war, an idea the Kremlin rejected.

“The renewal of the (deal) … is good news for global food security and for the developing world,” tweeted Rebeca Grynspan, secretary-general of the U.N. Conference on Trade and Development. “Solving the fertilizer crunch must come next.”

The 120-day extension was less than the one-year sought by the United Nations and Ukraine. Russia said earlier this week that the current duration period of the deal seems “justified.”.

Global food price crisis

A drop in Ukrainian shipments following Russia’s invasion in late February played a role in the global food price crisis but other important drivers include the COVID-19 pandemic and continued climate shocks.

Since July, some 11.1 million tonnes of agricultural products have been shipped under the deal, including 4.5 million tonnes of corn and 3.2 million tonnes of wheat.

U.S. wheat futures fell following the news of the extension.

“This is bearish for the market because it removes remaining doubts and we have something clear for the coming four months,” one French trader said.

“However, the fact that it is only for four months… means that uncertainty will resume in four months, with people wondering whether Russia will sign an extension or not.”

Ukraine and Russia are major global grain exporters. Russia is the world’s largest wheat exporter and a major supplier of fertilizers to global markets.

Since July, Moscow has repeatedly said its shipments of grain and fertilizers, though not directly targeted, are constrained because sanctions make it harder for exporters to process payments or to obtain vessels and insurance.

Moscow presumed that the Russian concerns related to easier conditions for its exports would be fully taken into account in coming months, its foreign ministry said.

— Reporting for Reuters by Michelle Nichols, Emma Farge, Sybille de La Hamaide, David Ljunggren and Reuters bureaus; writing by Nigel Hunt.

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The accident, which happened in the early hours of Thursday near Guernsey, Sask., about 40 km south of Humboldt, was the second derailment in the area in a span of two months.

Federal Transport Minister Marc Garneau said that effective at midnight on Friday, trains hauling more than 20 cars of dangerous goods would be limited to 25 miles per hour (40 km/h) across the country for the next 30 days.

The limit in urban areas will be 20 mph (32 km/h), he told reporters. The reductions represent a halving from the normal speed limits. Depending on results of the probe into Thursday’s derailment, the 30-day period could be shortened or lengthened.

“I realize there will be an effect on the economy of the country … but it is very, very important that we do not sacrifice safety,” Garneau said.

CP CEO Keith Creel said he fully backed the move and had already implemented the slowdown.

“Until we better understand the facts relating to today’s incident, it is prudent to operate with an abundance of caution,” he said in a statement. The company said there had been no injuries.

Canada’s biggest railway, Canadian National Railway (CN), will comply with the order and is reviewing its “significant impact on our operations,” spokesman Jonathan Abecassis said.

Dangerous goods include crude oil that is diluted with condensate, gasoline, diesel, chemicals and some fertilizers, said John Zahary, CEO of Altex Energy. The company operates terminals that load undiluted crude, which is not classified as a dangerous good.

The order will have a knock-on effect through the transportation system as rail workers and locomotives are tied up on longer trips, he said by phone.

“There is a finite number of people, of engineers driving the trains, a finite number of locomotives. So there is a direct impact on the dangerous goods, and maybe an indirect impact on everything else,” he said.

“All that stuff is going to slow down.”

In July 2013, 47 Canadians died in the Quebec town of Lac-Megantic after a runaway train with oil tankers derailed and exploded.

— Reporting for Reuters by David Ljunggren in Ottawa and Rod Nickel in Winnipeg; additonal reporting by Ankit Ajmera in Bangalore.

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The Navigable Waters Protection Rule could win political points ahead of the November election for Republican President Donald Trump in the Farm Belt, a key constituency.

Environmental Protection Agency administrator Andrew Wheeler announced the rule at a meeting of the National Association of Home Builders in Las Vegas. It narrows the definition of “waters of the United States” that are protected under the 1972 Clean Water Act from pollutants such as fertilizers, pesticides and mining waste.

It reduces uncertainty and curtails the need for farmers, landowners and businesses “to hire teams of attorneys to tell them how to use their own land,” Wheeler told reporters in a teleconference.

The rule rolls back protections going back decades. Protections now exclude certain types of waterways like seasonal streams and wetlands.

Fourteen states, including New York and California, along with the District of Columbia said the EPA’s proposal would end federal protection for half of the nation’s wetlands and 15 per cent of streams across the country.

The EPA’s panel of scientific advisers, including several appointed by Trump, said last year in a draft report that it was “not fully consistent with established EPA recognized science” to restore and maintain the chemical, physical and biological integrity of U.S. waters.

An administration official on Wheeler’s call said: “science has informed the development of this rule.”

The rule, expected to take effect in days or weeks, will replace the Obama-era Clean Water Rule, which broadly defined the nation’s waters to include ephemeral streams and wetlands. It was rescinded by the EPA last year after industry groups said it was too onerous.

“That was a rule that basically took your property away from you. As long as I’m president, government will never micromanage America’s farmers,” Trump said Sunday in a speech at the American Farm Bureau’s annual meeting in Texas.

‘All-out assault’

Anne Bradbury, CEO of the American Exploration and Production Council, an industry group of independent energy drillers, praised the administration for giving “regulatory certainty to expand and responsibly develop our vast natural resources” in an “environmentally protective way.”

“This new rule gives the flexibility and clarity needed to implement stewardship practices without the threat of government action,” Iowa corn and cow-calf producer Kevin Ross, president of the U.S. National Corn Growers Association, said in a statement.

Farmers, he said, “are committed to protecting the environment and implementing on-farm soil health practices like planting cover crops, reducing tillage and more carefully managing crop residue” and the new rule “will protect our nation’s water and be implemented without confusion.”

Environmental groups took issue with the EPA’s insistence that the ephemeral and other waterways will be adequately protected by state and local regulations and by farmers and landowners.

“This all-out assault on basic safeguards will send our country back to the days when corporate polluters could dump whatever sludge or slime they wished into the streams and wetlands that often connect to the water we drink,” said Janette Brimmer, an attorney with Earthjustice.

— Reporting for Reuters by Valerie Volcovici and Timothy Gardner. Includes files from Glacier FarmMedia Network staff.

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