Reading Time: 2 minutes * Warm November to help Russia’s winter grains – SovEcon * Says some farmers hold crops due to the falling rouble * SovEcon sees Nov. grain exports at 3.0-3.2 mln T Paris/Moscow / Reuters – Warm weather last week did not eliminate risks for Russia’s fragile winter grain plantings, said a Moscow-based agriculture consultancy SovEcon, warning […] Read more
Russia’s winter grains still at risk despite warm weather – analyst
France forced to import wheat as rain hits crop quality
Reading Time: 3 minutes Paris | Reuters –– France’s rain-hit wheat crop has delivered the first shock of the 2014-15 season: the EU’s top grower and exporter is buying Lithuanian and British milling wheat to mix with its unusually poor-grade crop to meet contracts signed before the harvest. French exports exceed those of Britain and Lithuania on the world […] Read more
French wheat premiums soar as market fears more rain damage
Reading Time: 2 minutes Paris/Reuters — Premiums for higher-quality wheat in France jumped on Monday as heavy weekend rain added to fears that this year’s harvest in the European Union’s top producer and exporter will be spoiled by poor quality. Farmers in eastern France have reported alarming quality indications for wheat, blamed on repeated rainfall in early July in […] Read more
France seeks lost wheat protein; exporter ranking at stake
Reading Time: 3 minutes The lowest level of protein in French wheat for years has drawn the government into a debate on tackling a decline in crop quality that producers and traders fear will cost the European Union’s top exporter lucrative overseas sales. Protein content is a basic measure of wheat’s suitability for making bread and a key requirement […] Read more
French durum exporters scale up to meet Canadian competition
Reading Time: 2 minutes French durum wheat producers aim to expand exports through a trading joint venture in a riposte to expected stiffer competition from Canada, the world’s top exporter of the pasta ingredient, the head of the French venture said. The ending last year of the Canadian Wheat Board’s marketing monopoly in Western Canada has shaken up the […] Read more
EU extends zero duty on wheat, barley imports
Reading Time: 2 minutes The European Union’s cereals management committee voted Thursday to extend the suspension of the bloc’s import duties on feed wheat and barley until June 30, 2012, the EU’s executive said in a statement. The EU in June suspended its import duties of 12 euros per tonne for low- and medium-quality wheat and 16 euros a […] Read more
EU may extend zero import duty on feed wheat, barley
Reading Time: 2 minutes The European Union’s cereals management committee may vote Thursday to extend a suspension of the bloc’s import duties on feed wheat and barley until June 30 2012, a draft agenda of the meeting seen by Reuters showed. In June, the EU suspended its import duties of 12 euros per tonne for low- and medium-quality wheat […] Read more
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