Insights and Stories of Gus Trompiz

Europe’s grain farms await rain break after damp winter

Mar. 8, 2024 at 9:09 am CST

Grain growers in western Europe will need rain to ease this month to progress with spring planting, after a wet February maintained soggy field conditions that have already put the region on course for a smaller wheat harvest, analysts said.

France drops plan to decrease farmers’ diesel discount

Jan. 26, 2024 at 3:56 pm CST

By Gus Trompiz Nacho Doce Reuters

Explainer: Why are French farmers protesting?

Jan. 24, 2024 at 2:11 pm CST

By Gus Trompiz Reuters Sybille De La Hamaide

Richardson buys into European malt market

Jul. 10, 2023 at 4:30 pm CDT

By Gus Trompiz Rod Nickel

Morocco adjusts wheat import scheme in nod to Black Sea

Mar. 8, 2023 at 2:59 pm CST

By Ahmed Eljechtimi Gus Trompiz

EU cuts estimate of drought-hit maize crop, raises import outlook

Nov. 25, 2022 at 5:50 pm CST

Paris | Reuters — The European Commission on Friday cut its estimate of this year’s drought-hit maize harvest in the European Union to a new 15-year low while again raising its projection for this season’s maize imports. European maize (corn) crops endured severe drought and several heatwaves during the crucial […]

By Gus Trompiz

Grain exporters tap EU supplies as war shuts Ukraine ports

Feb. 25, 2022 at 3:06 pm CST

Hamburg/Paris | Reuters — Grain exporters are looking for alternative sources of wheat and corn as a Russian invasion cuts off Ukrainian supplies, with European Union producers Romania and France being used to cover some nearby loadings, traders said Friday. The conflict has rattled grain markets, with European wheat futures […]

By Gus Trompiz Michael Hogan

China’s appetite for feed barley sucks in new crop from Canada, France

Feb. 3, 2021 at 2:37 am CST

Paris | Reuters — China’s buying spree of French and Canadian barley is spilling into the 2021-22 crop with large forward purchases, due to its major feed grain needs and a prohibitive tariff on Australian barley, traders and analysts said. China has been sweeping up huge volumes of foreign crops […]

By Gus Trompiz

InVivo in talks to acquire French agribusiness Soufflet

Jan. 14, 2021 at 12:16 am CST

Paris | Reuters — Co-operative group InVivo has entered exclusive talks to acquire family-controlled Soufflet in a deal that would create one of Europe’s biggest agricultural businesses with 10 billion euros (C$15.5 billion) in sales, the French firms said on Wednesday. The potential consolidation comes as France, the European Union’s […]

By Gus Trompiz Sybille De La Hamaide

Barley trade routes redrawn as China tariff hits Australian farmers

Nov. 16, 2020 at 7:24 pm CST

Sydney/Paris | Reuters — Out in Australia’s grain fields, farmers have started harvesting one of their biggest-ever barley crops, after drought-relieving rains convinced many to plant to the edges of their paddocks. Yet the tractors are working under the cloud of a new tariff imposed by China — seen widely […]

By Gus Trompiz Jonathan Barrett

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