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...The group warned that the UK would need to import more wheat than usual this year....
...However, Mike Johnson, the new Speaker of the US House of Representatives, told Fox News on Sunday that he expected the chamber to pass “a standalone Israel funding bill” this week....
...The surging price of wheat following the Russian invasion of Ukraine put considerable strain on the balance sheets of Egypt, Turkey, Tunisia, Ghana, and Kenya....
...So while you need options to do things like hedge, everything from your stock position to your wheat harvest if you are a farmer, people do speculate like crazy in these things....
...“President Putin expressed to us his readiness to facilitate Ukrainian wheat exports,” he wrote on Twitter after the meeting....
...“Wheat is up but the big thing is gas,” he added....
...Jay Rushin used to look at global wheat prices once a quarter or so. Now he checks them every other day....
...Indonesia, Independence Day national holiday Norway, the country’s oil wealth fund, one of the world’s largest funds, reports half-year figures at Arendalsuka US, former vice-president Mike Pence speaks...
...Crucial to the production of food staples such as corn, soy, rice and wheat, a sudden plunge in supply threatens to devastate global crop yields....
...In addition to depending on imported energy and staples such as wheat, the conflict has hit Sri Lanka in unexpected ways....
...Mike Watkins at Nielsen, which provides consumer data and analysis, noted that many stores had been emptied entirely of pasta, noodles, bread and also rice....
...Aid organisations have warned that the loss of the wheat, the staple food for Lebanon’s poorest, could hit food supplies. Lebanon is clamouring for answers about who is responsible for the blast....
...“Farmers are now very sensitive to data sharing,” said Chet Edinger, a South Dakota grower who farms corn, soyabeans and wheat....
...Brexit uncertainty is not the only thing on Mike Martin’s mind....
...US vice-president Mike Pence said last week that the US would provide $56m in aid to Venezuela’s neighbours to help them deal with migrants fleeing the country....
...When Mike Clemens voted for Donald Trump, the North Dakota farmer never imagined the president would push trade policies that would eliminate buyers for his soyabeans....
...“I’ve had lots of suppliers talking to me about the benefits they see,” Mike Coupe, Sainsbury’s chief executive, said at the same evidence session. MPs on the committee were openly sceptical....
...The US leader sent Mike Pence, vice-president, in his place, but a White House faux pas served only to raise Latin American hackles further....
...‘Hey, if you have too much excess solar and it’s lower cost, we’ll take it.’ ” Oversupply can be a serious problem because electricity cannot be economically stored, unlike commodities such as oil or wheat...
...President Nicolás Maduro has deployed soldiers and inspectors to bakeries as he wages a new “bread war” in an effort to ensure that 90 per cent of the country’s wheat supplies go towards bread rather than...
...On top of crumbling sales, manufacturers are grappling with higher prices of wheat and sugar, alongside fierce competition....
...In wheat, the “short positions” were at a record high, while also near record highs in corn....
...Mike Lynch, Autonomy’s founder, welcomed the deal. “They can’t really screw it up any more than it was,” he said....
...Furious winds across Iowa and Illinois earlier this week knocked over young corn stalks in “garden spot areas, potentially the best-yielding areas, and the market is taking notice”, says Mike Zuzolo, president...
...The US last year exported $150bn in agricultural products to the world and, unlike in manufactured goods, operates a trade surplus with many other important economies when it comes to items such as beef, wheat...
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