Insights and Stories on Wheat Exports

Russia aiming for steady grain crop in 2016

Dec. 15, 2015 at 3:20 pm CST

Moscow | Reuters –– Russia, one of the world’s largest wheat exporters, is aiming for an unchanged grain harvest in 2016 compared with the current year, the agriculture ministry said Tuesday. If the weather remains favourable during the winter and spring, Russia, a major wheat supplier to Turkey, Egypt and […]

Views mixed on impact of crude’s slip for ag markets

Dec. 9, 2015 at 3:03 pm CST

By Dave Sims

Argentina ag minister says grain export taxes on way out

Nov. 29, 2015 at 2:32 am CST

By Reuters

Russia-Turkey tensions stymie new wheat deals

Nov. 27, 2015 at 3:59 pm CST

By Polina Devitt Sarah McFarlane

U.S. grains: Wheat firms but weak exports limit gains

Nov. 12, 2015 at 6:29 pm CST

By Julie Ingwersen

World weather worth watching as winter hits Canada

Oct. 14, 2015 at 3:15 pm CDT

CNS Canada –– Harvest is wrapping up in Western Canada, but seeding is just starting in other parts of the world. Here are a few of the top market influencers traders and farmers are watching heading into winter. El Nino in the Southern Hemisphere – The Southern Hemisphere is starting […]

By Jade Markus

Russian government proposes cutting wheat export tax

Sep. 24, 2015 at 3:05 pm CDT

Semikarakorsk, Russia | Reuters — The Russian government has proposed cutting its floating wheat export tax from Oct. 1 and to exempt durum wheat from the levy, a senior official said on Thursday. Russian wheat exports have been constrained by the tax, which has prevented exporters from fully benefitting from […]

By darya-korsunskaya

Syria needs more wheat, despite healthy harvest

Sep. 23, 2015 at 2:45 pm CDT

Abu Dhabi | Reuters — Syrian farmers enduring a fifth year of civil war have sold less wheat to the state than last year despite a better harvest and higher offer price, leaving a large shortfall to be made up with imports complicated by western sanctions. President Bashar al-Assad’s government […]

By maha-el-dahan

Russian farm lobby says crop reports artificially high

Sep. 16, 2015 at 10:08 am CDT

Moscow | Reuters — Russian regional officials are pressuring farmers to report more grain crop than they actually harvest this year, the head of farmers’ lobby the Grain Union said on Tuesday. Arkady Zlochevsky said the difference between the actual harvest and the declared figures was not significant. However, his […]

By Reuters

New Russian wheat tax puts exporters, traders on edge

May. 29, 2015 at 6:08 pm CDT

Moscow | Reuters –– Russia approved the launch of a new wheat export tax from July 1, which traders say could threaten profits on advance contracts for the new crop if the rouble weakens in coming months. Russia’s government said Friday that the new tax was intended to stop exports […]

By Reuters

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