Insights and Stories on Wheat

Prairie Heritage Seeds brings Kamut brand khorasan wheat to Canada

Sep. 28, 2016 at 10:30 am CDT

OrganicBiz staff An international organic grain trading company based in Radville, Sask., is using its long-term foothold in Europe to bring Kamut brand khorasan wheat to Canada. Prairie Heritage Seeds, has supplied Kamut khorasan wheat to the European market for 20 years. It recently announced that it is extending its […]

Iran now self-sufficient in wheat, president says

Sep. 22, 2016 at 7:16 pm CDT

By Reuters

National Organic Grain and Feedstuffs: September 15

Sep. 15, 2016 at 2:56 pm CDT

By OrganicBiz

Egypt bans ergot in wheat, again

Aug. 29, 2016 at 7:09 pm CDT

By Eric Knecht maha-el-dahan

Big organic yields in the field but quality a concern

Aug. 26, 2016 at 11:43 am CDT

By OrganicBiz

Egypt’s wheat corruption scandal takes down supply minister

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

National Organic Grain and Feedstuffs: August 17

Aug. 18, 2016 at 2:44 pm CDT

USDA Livestock, Poultry & Grain Market News – Compared to two weeks ago, trade activity and demand good. Trade activity too limited on food grade organic grains to trend. Feed grade corn trade activity steady, demand moderate at 46 cents lower FOB. Feed grade soybean trade activity steady, with demand moderate to […]

By OrganicBiz

Ardent’s organic wheat program expands to Saskatchewan

Aug. 18, 2016 at 10:08 am CDT

OrganicBiz staff U.S. flour processor Ardent Mills’ is extending its support program for organic farmers to Saskatchewan as part of its plan to double organic wheat acres supplying its mills by 2019. Ardent, the joint North American flour venture of agrifood firms Cargill, CHS Inc. and ConAgra, said Aug. 17 […]

By OrganicBiz

Korea reports no GMO in U.S. wheat imports

Aug. 5, 2016 at 3:04 pm CDT

Seoul | Reuters — South Korea has not detected any genetically modified wheat in tests on imports of wheat and flour from Washington state, after the discovery of unapproved GM wheat in the U.S. state prompted Japan and South Korea to suspend certain U.S. imports. South Korea, the fifth largest […]

By Reuters

Threshers break world record at Austin

Aug. 5, 2016 at 9:43 am CDT

Hundreds of volunteers donned overalls and heaved sheaves on Sunday to re-enact a Prairie harvest scene on the grandest scale the world has ever seen. More than 148 antique threshing outfits rattled, hissed and ‘chuff-chuff-chuffed,’ tended by 700 participants, in the Guinness World Record attempt at the Manitoba Agricultural Museum […]

By Lorraine Stevenson