Insights and Stories on Spring Wheat

Aug. 31, 2016 at 7:56 pm CDT

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 […]

By Eric Knecht, maha-el-dahan

Aug. 29, 2016 at 7:09 pm CDT

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 […]

By Eric Knecht, maha-el-dahan

Aug. 25, 2016 at 3:44 pm CDT

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 […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Aug. 25, 2016 at 2:01 pm CDT

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 […]

By Eric Knecht, maha-el-dahan

Aug. 25, 2016 at 1:38 pm CDT

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 […]

By Polina Devitt