Record-breaking EU wheat exports, Glanbia adds US food-grade processing facility, Ardent Mills partners amend filing and Tiger Brands abandons milling and baking acquisitions in Kenya.
M&G Exclusive Interview: Blair Rutter, executive director of Western Canadian Wheat Growers Association
Late last month, Canada’s Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz and Transport Minister Lisa Raitt introduced the Fair Rail for Grain Farmers Act (click here for full text of the bill), in attempt to move the nation’s record grain crop faster and more efficiently...
Brazil corn production suffers, Milner Foods to buy Cereal Food Processors, pests become resistant to GM-corn, grain production downward spiral, GM crop controversy.
Mineral imbalance in African soil lowers yields, drought effects reduced with wheat dwarfing gene, sprouting wheat boosts antioxidant capacity and building aphid resistance in food crops.
Owing both to increased scrutiny by popular news media and miscommunication within the industry’s own ranks, wheat has become the source for sensationalism and untruths, said Brett Carver, regents professor of wheat breeding and genetics at Oklahoma State...
Australian researchers have been combining micro-sensing, sterile insect technology with new insect trapping systems to protect the country’s farms from the Queensland fruit fly, one of Australia's most economically damaging pest.
The contribution of agriculture to Saudi Arabia’s gross domestic product was last measured at 2.49% in 2010, according to the World Bank. Moreover, it is set to drop even lower once the country’s cultivation of wheat is phased out by 2016.
Disease-resistant wheat that can up yields developed, global pest problem is a cause for concern, annual effects of climate change are identified, methods to reduce aflatoxin contamination investigated.
Mexico issued a ban on the planting and selling of genetically modified corn, UK winter cropping areas are up 14%, Agspring buys General Mills’ Idaho grain ops, and IGC forecasts a slight rebound for the global wheat flour trade.
Last month, HGCA unveiled the five companies that will take part in its eGrain passport pilot to determine the feasibility of moving the current paper grain system online. Roz Reynolds, HGCA’s head of marketing, caught up with Milling & Grains ahead...
With wheat consumption is on the rise in Indonesia, the country might soon be in a position to resolve its self-sufficiency target for rice, according to a new report by Rabobank.
