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Some North Dakota wheat rejected for ergot, merchants say

By GFM Network News August 14, 2018

Chicago | Reuters –– Elevated levels of the grain fungus ergot are showing up in spring wheat being harvested in south-central North Dakota, prompting grain elevators to impose discounts and even turn some truckloads away, grain merchants said Tuesday. Ergot is a common grain fungus but some major buyers, including top global wheat importer Egypt, […] Read more

When we have years with lots of ergots, we have higher levels of wheat midge.

Cereals, Crops

Don’t blame ergot on the weather

Copper deficiency leads to the development of many diseases in cereal crops

By Ieuan Evans August 2, 2018

If you’re a pedigreed seed grower and you’ve discovered that one of your seed fields, either wheat or barley, is infested with ergot, you have a problem but it’s not what most, if not all of you think. Don’t blame it on a common diagnosis of cold, wet growing conditions. It’s more likely caused by […] Read more

Fresh bread in Egypt. (Goldream/iStock/Getty Images)

Crops, Reuters, Spring Wheat

Top court in Egypt permits wheat with trace ergot

By Reuters, GFM Network News May 28, 2018

Cairo | Reuters — Egypt’s top administrative court has ruled that the country should accept wheat with marginal levels of the common grain fungus ergot, a local newspapers said on Sunday, freezing a lower court order to ban the fungus entirely which had vexed traders. Egypt, the world’s largest wheat importer, baffled grain markets when […] Read more

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

Cereals, Crops, Reuters

Egypt court ruling seen reinstating ergot ban in wheat imports

By Reuters, GFM Network News November 14, 2017

Cairo | Reuters — An Egyptian court on Tuesday effectively reinstated a ban on wheat imports containing even trace levels of the common grain fungus ergot, a lawyer who raised the case told Reuters, potentially re-opening a longstanding row over import rules that has disrupted trade. Egypt, the world’s largest wheat importer, issued a decree […] Read more

Cereals, Crops, Pulses

Grain grading changes for Western Canada

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News July 27, 2017

The Canadian Grain Commission has announced several grain grading changes for the 2017 to 2018 crop year in Western Canada that will take effect August 1, 2017: It has added an ergot tolerance of 0.05 per cent in all grades of fababeans and chickpeas; Changed the tolerance for grasshopper and army worm damage from eight […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Reuters, Spring Wheat

Egypt court ruling revives row over ergot in wheat

By GFM Network News June 22, 2017

Cairo | Reuters — A court that ordered the suspension of Egypt’s food inspection system based its ruling in part on the quarantine service’s right to ban grain imports with any trace of the ergot fungus, raising the possibility the contested rule could be restored. The government’s new food inspection system simplified trade after a […] Read more

Crops, Reuters, Spring Wheat, Winter Wheat

Egypt’s wheat imports again uncertain as ergot ban looms

By GFM Network News June 6, 2017

Cairo | Reuters — An Egyptian court has decided to reinstate a zero tolerance policy on common grain fungus ergot, lawyers on the case told Reuters on Tuesday, plunging trade with the world’s largest wheat importer back into uncertainty. Egypt last year scrapped a ban on ergot in grain imports after it effectively halted purchase […] Read more

Cattleman’s Corner, Cereals, Livestock

Watch out for ergot in grains

Another wet growing and harvest season in 2016 is increasing the level of toxins in some feeds

By Heather Smith Thomas April 4, 2017

Ergot is a fungus that can grow on certain grasses and grain plants when moisture conditions are just right. Ergot becomes a problem mainly after a wet season, rarely during dry conditions. The fungus replaces seed in the seed head with a dark-brown/black mass and produces toxic alkaloids. One or more of the kernels in […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Spring Wheat

Speculation shrouds grain demand, rejections from Egypt

By GFM Network News March 17, 2017

CNS Canada — Egypt, the world’s biggest buyer of wheat, rejected three cargoes of the grain last week — its first rejections since it overhauled its inspection system and relaxed its import policy last fall. Three cargoes of wheat — two Russian, one Argentinian — purchased by Egyptian grain buyer GASC were rejected last week […] Read more

Cereals, Crops, Pulses

Ergot tolerances set for chickpeas, fababeans

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News November 17, 2016

Chickpeas and fababean crops graded in Canada will have a new maximum tolerance for ergot next year, even though the cereal disease doesn’t occur in either crop. The Canadian Grain Commission on Wednesday announced an ergot tolerance of 0.05 per cent for all grades of fababeans and chickpeas in Western Canada effective Aug. 1, 2017, […] Read more

GFM Network News

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U.S. grains: Wheat trades near contract lows under ample global supply

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