Russian and Ukrainian negotiators are scheduled to meet Wednesday in Istanbul , in the increasingly desperate effort to release huge amounts of grain from Ukraine’s ports and ship it to Continue Reading
France’s soft-wheat output will drop about 7% to 32.9 million tons this year. Photographer: Nathan Laine/Bloomberg Heat, drought and storms have shrunk the wheat harvest in France, the European Union’s Continue Reading
The young victims of an intensifying global food crisis are being buried in unmarked graves. In crowded malnutrition wards, families are waiting for one ailing child to be discharged before Continue Reading
Russia’s agriculture ministry on July 8 set the variable export tax on wheat at Rb5,558.9/mt ($87.88/mt) for the July 13-19 period, as the country’s grains traders welcomed a significant reduction Continue Reading
Corn is again the top US crop after soaring grain prices motivated farmers to shrug off weather woes and high fertilizer costs to plant more than expected while cutting back Continue Reading
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has driven up food prices around the world, but the situation is less grim in Asia. Thank rice. Following successive bumper crops, rice has emerged as Continue Reading
– U.S. farmers have cut back on using common weedkillers, hunted for substitutes to popular fungicides and changed planting plans over persistent shortages of agricultural chemicals that threaten to trim Continue Reading
Agricultural commodities fell as traders weighed an improved outlook for global food supplies, with signs pointing to burgeoning palm oil exports from Indonesia and a large Russian wheat crop this Continue Reading
A Food Complex and Market in Singapore. Asia’s red-hot food prices will likely heat up further in the coming months, with Singapore, South Korea and the Philippines set to see Continue Reading
Tracking the Fertilizer Supply Squeeze The fertilizer shortage that threw the agricultural sector into disarray and pushed food costs higher globally may be fading. Crops across the world are dependent Continue Reading
