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Harvesting Crews Hustle to Bring in Wheat Crop Hit by Drought, Late Rains

Seasonal outfits that work across breadbasket states lost business with a slow start. Seasonal outfits that work across breadbasket states lost business with a slow start. FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content, the hyperlink to the primary source is specified. All trademarks belong to their rightful owners, all materials to their authors. If you are the owner of the content and do not…

Great Plains Drought Hits Hay Crops

The market for hay is overshadowed by grains but can drive up food prices. The market for hay is overshadowed by grains but can drive up food prices. FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content, the hyperlink to the primary source is specified. All trademarks belong to their rightful owners, all materials to their authors. If you are the owner of the content and do not want us to publish your…

Russia Says It Will Rejoin Ukraine Grain-Export Deal

ISTANBUL—Russia said it would resume participation in a deal to allow Ukrainian grain exports, ending a dayslong standoff that threatened the steady flow of such shipments to world markets.Grain markets fell after Russia’s move. Wheat was down more than 5% early Wednesday, while corn prices lost more than 1%. Over the weekend, Russia suspended its involvement in a deal with the United Nations and Turkey struck in July that allowed for the safe passage of grain exports from war-torn Ukrainian ports through the Black Sea to…

Egypt’s Answer to a Rising Dollar Puts Everyday Items Out of Reach

CAIRO—When customers walk into Ahmed Ali’s pharmacy here, they often walk out without the medicine they need. He has run out of nearly a dozen prescription drugs for common ailments like high blood pressure and osteoporosis.“Every day I have to say that something isn’t available,” said Mr. Ali, 26, whose patients are flying to Turkey or the U.K. to get medicine, if they can afford the flight. Those who can’t turn to a growing black market for prescription drugs. Shortages of medicine, clothing and food are gripping Egypt,…

Ukraine Prepares First Grain Shipments Since Russian Invasion

KYIV, Ukraine—Ukraine is preparing to send its first grain shipments since the start of Russia’s invasion under a deal aimed at easing a looming global food crisis.The shipments, which Ukrainian officials said would leave in the next few days, will be the first test for a deal settled last week to allow Ukraine, one of the world’s largest grain exporters, to begin shipping some 20 million metric tons that the invasion has trapped in the country. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on…

Russia-Ukraine Grain Deal Won’t Translate Into Big Exports Immediately

LONDON—The deal between Moscow and Kyiv to allow for the export of Ukrainian grain is helping push global prices lower, but it won’t translate into a slug of new exports soon.Wheat prices fell Friday, as the deal raised hopes that a restart to Ukrainian grain exports would ease a brewing global food-supply crisis. Wheat futures traded in Chicago were down more than 4% at $7.72 a bushel. Having surged to a record high of $12.94 a bushel following Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, prices have tumbled…

Russia, Ukraine Clear Way for Grain Exports to Resume Amid Fears of Global Food Crisis

ISTANBUL—Russia and Ukraine agreed Friday to resume exports of millions of tons of Ukrainian grain via the Black Sea for the first time since the Russian invasion, a deal aimed at freeing up vital supplies amid fears of a global food crisis. The deal is the product of months of diplomacy led by the United Nations and Turkey, both of which are signatories to a pair of parallel agreements with Russia and Ukraine. It raises hopes that grain stocks could soon be shipped out from Ukrainian ports, after the war caused a…

Recession Fears, Trade Shifts Whipsaw Global Grain Markets

Growing fears of a global recession and easing concerns over world food shortages are reversing a sharp rally in grain markets, but pressure on food supplies could linger for years, executives and agricultural economists say.Prices for agricultural commodities such as corn and wheat have tumbled in recent weeks following a monthslong surge touched off by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in late February. War between the two agricultural giants drove futures prices for wheat at the Chicago Board of Trade up by $4 a bushel in…

Export Curbs Spread Globally, Adding to Food-Inflation Pressures

Countries around the world have enacted a wave of export curbs on food since the start of the Ukraine war, a trend that economists say risks aggravating shortages and global food-price inflation.On nearly every continent, nations have put new restrictions and bans on products ranging from wheat, corn and edible oils to beans, lentils and sugar. Lebanon has even banned the export of ice cream and beer. The cascade of restrictions marks another setback for unfettered global trade, which has been dented in recent years by…