ABU DHABI - Egypt's Agriculture Ministry sent a letter to traders saying it will allow an ergot fungus tolerance level of 0.05 percent in wheat imports, hoping suppliers will make offers in ...
ABU DHABI/CAIRO - Egypt has rejected two shipments of wheat for containing trace levels of the ergot fungus, backtracking on a government pledge to apply international standards and alarming traders ...
DASSEL — Ergot, a toxic fungus that grows on grains and grasses such as rye and wheat, definitely has a varied past. It caused hundreds of thousands of deaths around the globe across history, but it ...
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 ...
ABU DHABI/CAIRO, Sept 19 (Reuters) - Egypt's ability to import one of its most essential commodities, wheat, has been thrown into question amid repeated failed tenders, a result of suppliers shunning ...
An elusive fungus capable of generating quantities of a compound used to synthesize the hallucinogen LSD has finally been discovered on the morning glory vine after decades of searching. Almost a ...
DUBAI/PARIS (Reuters) - Egypt has rejected a French wheat shipment for exceeding authorized levels of the grain fungus ergot, sources said on Tuesday, in an echo of problems three years ago over ...
This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. ST. LOUIS (AP) _ Farmers and ranchers in ...