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Canada continues to rank as one of the top destinations for U.S. agricultural exports.

Opportunities exist to expand U.S. food product sales to Canada's food and beverage processing sector.

Milk, cheese, butter and skim milk powder production is forecast to increase in 2015 due to the need to build stocks.

Since the beginning of 2014, there have been multiple outbreaks of Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea (PED) reported on commercial-scale farms in Ukraine.

Weekly minimum grain volumes required to be moved by Canadian railroads, which were set to expire on November 29, 2014, will be extended until March 28, 2015.

The Canadian renewable fuels industry is coming close to reaching its medium term domestic production capacity.

In previous years, some U.S. exhibitors at shows or trade fairs in Canada have run into difficulties with getting their products across the border.

A new Order in Council set minimum weekly grain shipments for Canada’s two rail companies from August 3 through November 29, 2014, at 536,250 MT.

The 2014 growing and harvest seasons were uneventful for the Canadian apple and pear sectors with production volumes estimated only slightly below last year’s level.

Statistics Canada puts the 2014/2015 wheat, barley, corn, and oat crop at 48.7 million metric tons (MMT), 26 percent below the previous year’s crop of 65.9 million metric tons.

Ukraine’s grain exports are growing at moderate pace. In the new marketing year 2014/15, by mid-October, Ukraine has exported over 6 million metric tons of wheat and over one million tons of barley.

Historically, Ukraine produced a varying assortment of legumes for human consumption with the larger share of the crop utilized for forage that were sold mainly to livestock producers.