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Tag: Grain
Ship Refloated After Getting Stuck In Suez Canal—The Latest Incident Hitting World’s Trade Artery
Topline A ship has been refloated after running aground in Egypt’s Suez Canal on Monday, according to news reports, briefly disrupting traffic in the latest incident to hit one of the world’s busiest ...
The Dow ‘exits’ bear-market territory. Here’s why investors should take it with a grain of salt
After outperforming both the S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite in November, the Dow Jones Industrial Average has exited bear-market territory, based on oft-cited criteria, on the final trading day of t...
Global Food Crisis Back On? Russia Bails From Grain Deal, Blaming Ukraine Drone Attack
Topline Russian officials reneged on its deal with Ukraine clearing the Black Sea for grain exports, after it claimed Ukraine led a drone strike on its Crimean naval fleet—threatening what officials w...
It’s Time To Talk Turkey, La Niña Is Coming Back, And How The Ukraine War Keeps Aggravating Global Food Shortages
I hate to rev up anxiety, but it’s time to start figuring out what you’re sourcing for Thanksgiving. These next few weeks are going to fly by. Given sky-high inflation, drought pushing up prices, and ...
Ukraine’s Success in Turning Back Russia’s Invasion Could Aggravate Global Food Shortages
A pair of Russian Su-25 Frogfoot attack aircraft streak across a Ukrainian wheat field as seen from … [+] a farmer’s combine harvester. PR Army In about a month, the Black Sea Grain Initia...
Sorghum’s Revival Goes Against The Grain
The world appears to be waking up to the potential of an ancient grain by the name of sorghum. Originally from the African continent, this gluten free grain, also known as guinea corn, jwari, jowar, k...
Hunting Invasive Lionfish In Dominica, A $4.5 Billion Chicken Industry Consolidation, And The Moldy Grain Coming Out Of Ukraine’s Black Sea Ports
I’m back after my longest break from working in, well, my entire life, and feeling quite refreshed. How could I not after two weeks of organic juices, huge avocados and hikes to waterfalls and hot spr...
Grain Is Starting To Ship From Ukrainian Ports But It Might Be Too Late For Starving Millions
For six months, ships filled with grain have been sitting idle in ports along the Black Sea, victims of Russia’s unprovoked attack on Ukraine. Now some of those ships are moving, navigating the perils...
First Shipment Of Ukrainian Grain Departs From Odesa Port
Topline A shipment of grains left the Ukrainian port of Odesa on Monday for the first time since the start of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as part of a UN-brokered deal that is expected to ease global...
Russia Condemned For Odessa Strike After Ukraine Grain Deal
Topline Russia on Saturday signaled it has no intention of honoring a deal to allow for the safe export of Ukrainian grain, firing missiles on the critical Black Sea port of Odessa, imperiling the hop...
Ukraine Reportedly Strikes Deal With Russia To Resume Grain Exports Amid Fears Of Food Crisis
Topline Ukrainian officials say they have reached a deal with Russia, Turkey and the United Nations Friday to lift a Russian naval blockade, allowing millions of tons of stockpiled Ukrainian grain to ...
Ukraine Minister Pleads For Security To Export Grain Amid Concerns Of Food Crisis
Topline Ukraine’s foreign minister said it is “two steps away” from an agreement with Russia for security measures to resume shipments of grain – the country’s biggest export – as Russian civilian air...
Russia Widens Attack On Food With Bombing Of Train Bound For José Andrés’ World Central Kitchen
A dozen pallets of meat, two pallets of fresh vegetables, three pallets of fruit. There was fish, pasta, buckwheat and sugar. All on the way to needy families in Ukraine. All destroyed. A Russian miss...
Where Walmart Doesn’t Exist, Ukraine’s Stolen Grain And Inside Gastro
I’m back after a long weekend of drinking mojitos and eating ceviche in Key West, where I was closer to Cuba than to the nearest Walmart. I relished that rarity. Walmart dominates America’s grocery sc...
With New Tactics, Ukraine Can Break Russia’s Black Sea Grain Blockade
Any of these Black Sea ships, waiting to access a Romanian Port, can carry an anti ship missile. Getty Images In the American Civil War, Southern rebels used all manner of subterfuge to try and break ...
Skirting Russian Black Sea Blockade To Feed The World’s Hungriest Is Mission Of Yemen’s Biggest Company
Yemen’s civil war has killed hundreds of thousands and left many of the survivors without enough to eat. Now, Russia’s blockade of Ukraine’s food exports has made it even harder for the world’s hungri...
Russia’s Control of Snake Island Spells Hunger and Instability for Parts of Africa and The Middle East
A view of Snake Island, Ukraine which is currently occupied and controlled by a Russian garrison. Wikipedia commons Russia’s foothold on Snake Island, a smattering of land off the coast of Western Ukr...
Waves Of Grain And Fruited Plains The Recipe For Making An American Economic Apple Pie
Farmers driving John Deere tractors fitted with mowers harvest a field of alfalfa, Bakersfield, … [+] California, circa 1950. (Photo by Orville Logan Snider/Frederic Lewis/Archive Photos/Getty I...
Pittsburgh Pirates Go Against Grain, Open Wallet For Ke’Bryan Hayes
Pittsburgh Pirates third baseman Ke’Bryan Hayes takes up his position during the first inning of a … [+] baseball game against the St. Louis Cardinals Thursday, April 7, 2022, in St. Louis...
The $120 Billion Global Grain Trade Is Being Redrawn by Russia’s War in Ukraine
(Bloomberg) — Across Ukraine’s farm belt, silos are bursting with 15 million tons of corn from the autumn harvest, most of which should have been hitting world markets. Most Read from Bloomberg ...
Russian Invasion Reducing Ukraine’s Grain Exports To A Trickle, Agriculture Minister Warns
Topline The ongoing conflict in Ukraine is making it progressively more difficult for the country to export grain, Ukrainian Agriculture Minister Mykola Solskyi said in a televised briefing Saturday, ...
3 agricultural stocks to watch as grain prices soar
Grain prices have skyrocketed in the past few months as investors react to the ongoing crisis in Ukraine. Wheat has soared to a record high while Soybeans have risen to the highest point since 2012. C...
The Russia-Ukraine war is fueling the ‘biggest supply shock to global grain markets’ in living memory
Wheat futures have surged by more than 40% over the last five days, on track for the biggest weekly rise since at least 1959 as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine crimps exports of the crucial food grain an...
Grain Markets Set for Supply Shock of a Lifetime, Economist Says
(Bloomberg) — Russia’s invasion of Ukraine could devastate global grain markets so deeply that it’s likely to be the biggest supply shock in living memory. Most Read from Bloomberg That’s accord...