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...Ethiopia, which relies on disrupted Black Sea exports for almost half its wheat, had found supplies from Argentina and the US. Turks had switched from eating wheat to rice....
...Known as the breadbasket of Europe, Ukraine is the world’s fifth-largest exporter of wheat....
...Russia and Ukraine are leading exporters of grain, producing 14 per cent of global wheat and accounting for just under 30 per cent of all wheat exports....
...Additional reporting by Oliver Ralph...
Today’s main developments: Ukraine seeks help from Red Cross as it warns of ‘catastrophe’; fire at Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant extinguished; wheat prices soar to record
...Luxury fashion retailer Ralph Lauren is also set to report earnings. Economic data Economists forecast that sales of new homes in the US declined in April to 750,000 units, down from 763,000 in March....
...The dilemma faced by Swiss chocolate-makers is playing out across the food sector as tastes shift and the “war on sugar” forces everyone from wheat traders to the makers of Campbell Soup to rethink their...
...Syngenta’s half-year results last week bore the scars of tougher global markets resulting from low wheat and corn prices as well as bad weather conditions in Europe and Asia Pacific....
...In commodity markets, wheat leapt 4.7 per cent, Brent crude oil rose 2.1 per cent and UK natural gas futures jumped nearly 10 per cent....
...Names like Cartier, Rolex, Ralph Lauren, Lacoste . . . I had 60 projects in my first year. Sixty!”...
...The people of Lydda grab anything they can: bread, vegetables, dates and figs; sacks of flour, sugar, wheat, and barley; silverware, copperware, jewelery; blankets, mattresses....
...You know, pancakes are one of the few foods you can make with soy milk and wheat flour, and they taste good because you just load them up with butter and maple syrup, so my kids will eat them.”...
...Late last year I travelled to Sudan with Will Jones of Journeys by Design, a tour company dealing in luxury African travel, whose clients include Ralph Lauren....
...“AWB’s grain businesses are a great fit with Cargill Australia’s existing grain and commodity trading operations,” Ralph Selwood, managing director of Cargill Australia, said on Wednesday....
...Often he would barter – sometimes Levi’s jeans in return for steel, other times fax machines for wheat....
...One of his few friends, the agriculture minister Ralph Goodale, was enraged by his abolition of the “Crow Rate”, which subsidised the transport of wheat by rail....
...As a teenager, Ralph Horner from Abergavenny told his father he was going to work on his grandfather’s farm. The old man insisted he learned a trade instead and won the argument....
...Additional reporting by Hal Weitzman in Chicago, Ralph Atkins in Frankfurt and Javier Blas in London...
...Below, on the quayside, a ship unloads wheat from Canada, while another brings US soya-beans....
...China has only a few individuals that might be considered “consumer watchdogs” but none approaches the stature of people like Ralph Nader....
...Ralph Goodale, finance minister, indicated at the weekend that Ottawa was intensifying efforts to resolve long-running disputes with Washington over softwood lumber and wheat....
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