Regional Updates MEDITERRANEAN/MIDDLE EAST/NORTH AFRICA Grain and feed ingredient importers in Turkey will find that import prices have increased considerably after a drop of about 14 percent in the value of the Turkish lira versus the U.S. dollar. Some experts are saying that the drop could extend even further due to a drop in investor confidence in Turkey. The drop in value was started by the firing of the head of the Turkish Central Bank on 20 March. One comment was made that the Turkish situation had been improving due to strong Central Bank actions but that now “defeat has been snatched from the jaws of victory” (@Brown Brothers Harriman). It is reported that Turkish charities have been sending wheat flour to...
Weather concerns and the impacts of the war in Iran helped push wheat and corn to sharp gains Tuesday, with both markets blowing past key technical resistance levels. The weather is now coupled with geopolitical tensions that look increasingly hard to resolve, which is giving funds the perfect...
Congress is moving forward with its FY 2027 spending bills, while also still working to address FY 2026 funding for the Department of Homeland Security, which is still in a shutdown. The House Agriculture-FDA Appropriations Subcommittee marked up and passed its FY 2027 bill. The House bill prov...
Mediterranean/Middle East/North Africa/Africa – MEA Region Tunisian researchers have been able to fully sequence the genomes of two local durum wheat types that have been grown in Tunisia for generations. They say that this “could be the key to developing more climate-resistant duru...
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