marcia script, author of numerous books, including today s velshi banned book club feature, winterkill. marsha, think you, thank you so much for being with us. i want to start with the premise for winterkill, you say that your book was inspired by your grandfather. tell me a bit about that, please. my grandfather was a member of the communist party in canada, and he had lost track of his mother and sister. he came before the first world war, so he joined the communist party to be able to go back to the soviet ukraine, to try to find his family. so, one of the main characters is alice, whose father it s a communist member and did go back to ukraine to help stalin with his plan, which a lot of communists of the time, who were canadian and american, thought sounded really good. because communism, honestly, it
We track developments in the global wheat, maize and soybean markets in the past week, and report on the latest USDA estimates on US maize and soybean planting in 2021-22.
Global wheat futures rose last week, because of worries about the impact of cold weather on winter wheat crops in the US - there is still a focus on potential winter kill there - and a lower crop forecast for Russia, says a
SovEcon took 1.5Mt off its 2021 Russian wheat crop forecast, citing the impact of the Russian export tax on farmers’ decisions and unfavorable weather as the rationale behind that move. At 76.2Mt, the latest forecast is 9.7Mt smaller than the 2020 crop, finds the AHDB analysts.