Canada’s first durum variety classified as resistant to ergot may expand the wheat’s acreage in parts of Western Canada where ...

CAIRO/ABU DHABI (Reuters) - Egypt's ability to buy wheat from abroad while demanding zero ergot fungus in shipments was dealt a serious blow on Wednesday, with state grain buyer GASC cancelling its ...

ABU DHABI -- Egypt, the world's largest wheat buyer, is tapping global markets again to purchase the strategic grain, its third attempt since reinstating a controversial zero tolerance policy towards ...

ABU DHABI - A shipment of Canadian wheat rejected in Egypt over concerns it contained traces of the ergot fungus has been re-exported to Europe after Egypt's agricultural quarantine rejected a ...

HAMBURG, Sept 8 (Reuters) - Romanian grain trading house Cerealcom Dolj said on Thursday it had declined to ship wheat to Egypt because of new rules about ergot fungus content, refuting reports that ...

Egypt's health ministry banned wheat with any ergot fungus on Monday, a decision traders said signals the zero tolerance policy that wreaked havoc on the country's grain purchases earlier this year is ...

Washington State University plant pathology professor Tim Murray. “It was an interesting year and kind of a mixed bag of things,” he said. August and September rains meant some diseases appeared ...

University of Missouri Extension state forage specialist Craig Roberts says now is the time to check for ergot in the seed heads of grasses. Ergot can cause severe illness in livestock, especially ...

PARIS - One of three ships due to deliver French wheat to Egypt left on Sunday night following weeks of delays, a sign that exports are resuming to the world's largest importer of the grain, shipping ...

Courtesy of the University of Illinois Extension http://bulletin.ipm.illinois.edu A fungus that can kill horses and cattle is rampant in Missouri’s pastureland this ...

Harvest isn't finished yet, but reports so far indicate this was a good year to raise spring wheat in much of the Upper Midwest. "A lot of (Montana wheat) producers are tickled pink," says Ryan ...