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A Russian grain terminal at the Port of Novorossiysk on the Black Sea. (NMTP.info)

Cereals, Crops, Fruit/Vegetables, Reuters

Russia may ban Egyptian citrus amid wheat dispute

By GFM Network News September 13, 2016

Moscow/Cairo | Reuters — Russia threatened to ban Egyptian citrus imports on Tuesday, a move that could escalate a trade dispute over exports of Russian wheat to the world’s largest importer of the grain. Moscow said this week it hopes to hold talks with Egypt, its top buyer, over Cairo’s failure to approve Russian wheat […] Read more

Crops, Reuters, Spring Wheat

Health ministry decision makes zero ergot Egypt’s new normal

By GFM Network News September 6, 2016

Abu Dhabi/Cairo | Reuters — Egypt’s health ministry banned wheat with any ergot fungus on Monday, a decision traders said signals the zero tolerance policy that wreaked havoc on the country’s grain purchases earlier this year is back to stay. The decree, seen by Reuters, brings the ministry in line with an agriculture ministry decree […] Read more

Sunset in Egypt on the Nile River south of Luxor. (CIA.gov)

Crops, Reuters, Spring Wheat

Egypt’s GASC cancels wheat tender as ergot policy bites

By GFM Network News August 31, 2016

Cairo/Abu Dhabi | Reuters — Egypt’s ability to buy wheat from abroad while demanding zero ergot fungus in shipments was dealt a serious blow on Wednesday, with state grain buyer GASC cancelling its tender after receiving just one offer. It was the country’s first tender to purchase wheat since it reinstated its zero-tolerance ergot policy […] Read more

Bayer’s objective is to produce wheat hybrids that help farmers be more competitive in the market place and also help feed the world.

Cereals, Crops, Features

Bayer brings hybrid spring wheats to Saskatchewan

Bayer hopes to have its new spring wheat hybrids in farmers' fields in six to eight years

By Grainews Staff August 30, 2016

On a blustery June day, officials cut the ribbon on Bayer CropScience’s new wheat breeding centre near Pike Lake, Saskatchewan. But the wheat varieties coming out of that research station south of Saskatoon will be unlike other varieties grown in Western Canada, as the company is developing hybrid spring wheat varieties in Saskatchewan. Today’s wheat […] Read more

Crops, Reuters, Spring Wheat

Egypt bans ergot in wheat, again

By GFM Network News August 29, 2016

Cairo/Abu Dhabi | Reuters — Egypt reinstated on Sunday a controversial ban on wheat shipments containing even the slightest amount of a common grain fungus, baffling traders who had returned to the Egyptian market just last month when the ban was lifted. The world’s largest wheat importer said on Sunday it was re-introducing its zero […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Reuters, Spring Wheat

Russia muscling into rivals’ wheat markets

By GFM Network News August 25, 2016

Moscow | Reuters — Russia is muscling in on the markets of its European and North American competitors as it overtakes the European Union to become the world’s biggest wheat exporter for the first time. Russia is expecting a record crop in the 2016-17 marketing season, which began on July 1, while EU harvests are […] Read more

Crops, Spring Wheat, Weather

Quality still a question for Canada’s big wheat crop

By GFM Network News August 25, 2016

CNS Canada — Canadian farmers are sitting on a very large wheat crop this year, but the moisture that helped boost yields also caused disease issues and supplies of higher-quality wheat may still be in short supply. While the spring wheat harvest is just getting started and it’s hard to get a firm handle on […] Read more

Khaled Hanafi, Egypt’s minister for supply and internal trading, shown here at a meeting Tuesday, has resigned in the wake of the country’s ongoing probe into purchases of local wheat. (MSIT.gov.eg)

Crops, Reuters, Spring Wheat, Winter Wheat

Egypt’s wheat corruption scandal takes down supply minister

By GFM Network News August 25, 2016

Cairo/Abu Dhabi | Reuters — Egypt’s Minister of Supply Khaled Hanafi has resigned amid the highest-profile corruption case since President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi came to power in 2014. Hanafi’s resignation is the most senior-level fallout from a probe into whether millions of dollars intended to subsidize farmers were used to purchase wheat that did not […] Read more

Crops, Spring Wheat

Ardent’s organic wheat program expands to Saskatchewan

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News August 17, 2016

U.S. flour processor Ardent Mills’ plan to double organic wheat acres in the U.S. by 2019 has rolled into Saskatchewan. Ardent, the joint North American flour venture of agrifood firms Cargill, CHS Inc. and ConAgra, said Wednesday it has so far expanded “Organic Initiative 2019,” which it launched in December, to seven U.S. states plus […] Read more

The wheat plants were stunted and yellow-green in colour, with older leaves that were brown and starting to die off. Newer growth was starting to show the same symptoms.

Cereals, Crops

Crop Advisor’s Casebook: Sickly wheat prompts distress call

A Crop Advisor's Solution from the February 10 , 2015 issue of Grainews

By Jeneen Burnett August 17, 2016

John, a producer who grows wheat, canola, peas and lentils on his 5,000-acre grain farm just west of Swift Current, Sask., was out spraying peas in mid-June when he spotted a problem with another one of his crops just across the road. The wheat in that field looked like it was dying off. Not long […] Read more

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Cereals

Russia may ban Egyptian citrus amid wheat dispute

Health ministry decision makes zero ergot Egypt’s new normal

Egypt’s GASC cancels wheat tender as ergot policy bites

Bayer brings hybrid spring wheats to Saskatchewan

Egypt bans ergot in wheat, again

Russia muscling into rivals’ wheat markets

Quality still a question for Canada’s big wheat crop

Egypt’s wheat corruption scandal takes down supply minister

Ardent’s organic wheat program expands to Saskatchewan

Crop Advisor’s Casebook: Sickly wheat prompts distress call

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