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IGC raises wheat crop outlook on India, Romania upgrades

By Nigel Hunt, Reuters June 26, 2025
The International Grains Council on Thursday raised its forecast for global wheat production in the 2025/26 season, largely reflecting improved crop outlooks in India and Romania.

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Livestock

UK detects first case of bird flu in a sheep, stoking fears of spread

By Nigel Hunt, Reuters March 24, 2025
Bird flu has been detected in a sheep in northern England, the first known case of its kind in the world, Britain's government said, adding to the growing list of mammals infected by the disease and fuelling fears of a pandemic.


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Crops

IGC trims global corn forecast

By Nigel Hunt, Reuters January 16, 2025
The International Grains Council (IGC) on Thursday cut its forecast for 2024/25 global corn production, largely reflecting a downward revision for the United States.

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Explainer: China’s probes on EU products following EV tariffs

By Mei Mei Chu, Nigel Hunt, Reuters August 29, 2024
China has opened an anti-subsidy probe into imported dairy products from the European Union, stepping up tension with the bloc a day after Brussels released its revised draft decision related to tariffs on China-made electric vehicles.

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Ukraine corn production seen falling this year

By Nigel Hunt June 12, 2024
London | Reuters – Ukraine’s corn production and exports are expected to fall this year with yields set to fall after extreme heat while crops were sown in April, Mykola […] Read more


Vessels are seen as they await inspection under the Black Sea Grain Initiative, brokered by the UN and Turkey, in the southern anchorage of the Bosphorus at Istanbul on Dec. 11, 2022. (File photo: Reuters/Yoruk Isik)
Crops, Markets

Three more ships approved under renewed Black Sea grain deal

Wheat futures down on news of renewal

By Michelle Nichols, Nigel Hunt May 18, 2023
London/United Nations | Reuters — Three new ships were authorized on Thursday to take part in a deal allowing the safe Black Sea export of Ukraine grain, said the United […] Read more

Commercial vessels including vessels which are part of Black Sea grain deal wait to pass the Bosphorus strait off the shores of Yenikapi during a misty morning in Istanbul, Turkey, October 31, 2022.  Photo: Reuters/Umit Bektas
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U.N.’s Black Sea grain deal continues without Russia

By Nigel Hunt October 31, 2022
London | Reuters – Grain was flowing out of Ukraine at a record pace on Monday under an initiative led by the United Nations aimed at easing global food shortages […] Read more

Farmer Anil Salunkhe feeds strawberries to a cow during a 21-day nationwide lockdown to slow the spread of COVID-19 in the Satara district in India’s Maharashtra state on April 1, 2020. (Photo: Reuters/Rajendra Jadhav)
Crops, Markets

How COVID-19 is upending global food supply chains

Cows fed strawberries in India, watermelons rot in U.S., okra not reaching Canada

By Naveen Thukral, Nigel Hunt, rajendra-jadhav April 4, 2020
Satara/Singapore/London | Reuters — In the fertile Satara district in western India, farmers are putting their cattle on an unorthodox diet: Some feed iceberg lettuce to buffalo. Others feed strawberries […] Read more


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China reshapes global meat markets as swine fever rages

By Nigel Hunt November 8, 2019
London | Beijing | Reuters – China is scouring the world for meat to replace the millions of pigs killed by African swine fever (ASF), boosting prices, business and profits […] Read more

Australia is suffering from a third year of drought, resulting in a deep reduction in agriculture output.  Photo: Thinkstock
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Australia drought cuts IGC global wheat crop outlook

By Nigel Hunt October 25, 2019
London | Reuters – The International Grains Council (IGC) on Thursday trimmed its forecast for global wheat production in the 2019/20 season as the outlook for Australia’s crop dimmed. In […] Read more

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