Insights and Stories on Flour

Flour millers face supply crunch as wheat farmers tighten grip on stocks

Nov. 21, 2024 at 11:27 am CST

Wheat growers in several exporting countries are reluctant to sell their crops with prices near four-year lows, traders, farmers and millers say, leaving flour makers with dwindling supplies and vulnerable to any potential upswing in prices.

P+H upgrading southwestern Ontario elevator

Apr. 5, 2023 at 11:10 pm CDT

By Dave Bedard

India allows exports of wheat flour processed from imported grain

Oct. 14, 2022 at 7:22 pm CDT

By Reuters

Egypt’s private sector wheat imports stall due to dollar shortage

Oct. 4, 2022 at 7:21 pm CDT

By Sarah El Safty

Brazil clears GMO wheat flour from Argentina in global first

Nov. 11, 2021 at 11:41 pm CST

By Ana Mano Hugh Bronstein

Millers, bakers fret as drought withers North America’s spring wheat

Aug. 5, 2021 at 9:00 am CDT

Reuters – Millers and bakers are draining wheat reserves and paying more for spring wheat used in baking, as drought shrivels crops across the Canadian Prairies and northern U.S. Plains that produce more than half of the world’s supply. U.S. and Canadian farmers are bracing for a sharply smaller spring […]

By Karl Plume Rod Nickel

Last year’s flour output up in most categories

May. 17, 2021 at 7:30 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — Statistics Canada reported on Monday that Canadian wheat millers processed 3.267 million tonnes of all wheat in 2020 — a slight increase of about 2.1 per cent over 2019, keeping flour processing on the rise over the last four years. There were also year-to-year increases in the other […]

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

After blast, Lebanon has less than a month’s grain reserves

Aug. 5, 2020 at 4:40 pm CDT

Beirut/Dubai | Reuters — Lebanon’s main grain silo at Beirut port was destroyed in a blast, leaving the nation with less than a month’s reserves of the grain but enough flour to avoid a crisis, the economy minister said on Wednesday. Raoul Nehme told Reuters a day after Tuesday’s devastating […]

By Ellen Francis maha-el-dahan

Saudi Arabia completes first phase of flour mill privatization

Jul. 8, 2020 at 5:45 pm CDT

Dubai/London | Reuters — Saudi Arabia said on Wednesday it had completed the first batch of its flour milling sector privatization, according to a statement by the state grain buyer and privatization centre. The long-awaited flour mills sale was one of the first privatizations the kingdom planned as part of […]

By maha-el-dahan Saeed Azhar Tom Arnold

U.S. grains: Wheat posts steepest drop since August

Apr. 1, 2020 at 4:22 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. wheat prices fell more than three per cent on Wednesday as coronavirus fears dragged down equities markets and lifted the dollar, sending Chicago wheat futures to their steepest decline in 7-1/2 months. Soybeans fell more than two per cent, the most in 2-1/2 weeks, and […]

By Christopher Walljasper

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