Sentences with phrase «wheat prices»

So when the price of bread goes up five cents, they're motivated to take action against whatever caused that to occur - rising wheat prices, new government regulations, etc..

After several years of supporting wheat prices at five times the world market level, the government was forced to face fiscal reality and cut the subsidies.

After several years of using oil money to support wheat prices at five times the world market level, the government was forced to face fiscal reality and cut the subsidies.

Some of the fall is explained by the size of the 2017 - 18 winter crop falling from record levels, but industry analysts said wheat prices were the biggest factor.

Extra growth could mean extra inflation - especially as the indications are that food prices, particularly wheat prices, are set to rise in the coming months.

Global grain stocks were already scant, so wheat prices began to rise rapidly.

In Russia and Ukraine last year, a heat wave decimated crops and led to 80 % rises in worldwide wheat prices in three months.

In the U.S., Lawson says high wheat prices have sparked a vicious cycle that is skewing farmers» planting decisions, and driving prices on other crops higher, too.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Thursday raised its forecast for China's imports in 2013/14 to 8.5 million metric tons from 3.2 million metric tons in the previous year, prompting U.S. wheat prices to rally to more than two - week highs.

, says that the Russian heatwave led to a hoarding of food supplies and price - fixing by speculators, which compounded food shortages and led to global wheat prices rising dramatically.

Hans - Joachim Braun, director of CIMMYT's Global Wheat program, said he had a hard time promoting the development of wheat fields in Africa when wheat prices were low.

Australia's rice and wheat crops are failing due to drought, sending worldwide wheat prices to a ten - year high.

Biofuel enthusiasts in Italy may have just seen their hopes falter a bit: facing the prospect of mounting durum wheat prices, many pasta lovers in the country will undoubtedly wonder whether it's worth trading in their staple food for more wheat - based

Abdussamatov has been quite confident of his findings for what might strike some as odd reasons: His science is based on that of the giants in the field — astronomers like Milutin Milankovitch, who a century ago described how tilts in its axis and other changes in the Earth's movements determine its climate, and William Herschel, who two centuries ago noticed an inverse correlation between wheat prices on Earth and the number of sunspots generated by the Sun's cycles.

Falling wheat prices in recent months mostly reflect increases in world stock levels; stocks have increased over the past year due to the combination of good harvests in many regions and weaker world demand.

In Russia, where wheat prices skyrocketed following a spate of droughts last summer, all eyes are now on the price of cucumbers, following an import ban on fresh vegetables from the EU.

A fungus is spreading across coffee crops in South America, a debilitating virus is sweeping across the U.S. hog population, and geopolitical tensions in Russia and Ukraine are giving wheat prices a boost.

I think that if it weren't for the trade war brewing with China wheat prices would even be higher.

The Great Plains and the Midwestern part of the United States have experienced extremely cold temperatures during the early spring as that is causing some concerns on crop yields as I do think wheat prices could test the $ 5 level possibly in next week's trade.

Wheat prices spent the first few days of this week pushing back up towards their highs made back in early March as crop tours began this week to determine just how much production has been lost.

Wheat prices increased by almost 5 per cent in the quarter, staging strong gains early in the period on fears that dry weather in several large producer countries (in particular the US) would result in lower world supply.

Wheat prices remain weak and in the three months to July were around 8 per cent lower than the same period a year ago, though they spiked in late 2002 as a result of drought.

Cotton prices have increased substantially in the past three months following a poor crop in China, while wheat prices are also up since the middle of last year, following adverse weather conditions in Europe.

Swelling global grain production pushed wheat prices to decade lows this year and left many east coast growers uncompetitive against Russian and Ukraine producers, who benefited from more efficient supply chains and lower freight costs.

But factoring in climate change will boost wheat prices by at least 170 percent and rice by a minimum of 113 percent; the cost of maize will be at least 148 percent higher than at the turn of the century by mid-century.

«By 2010, at current wheat prices [of $ 5.50 per bushel], we can supply oil at $ 2 per gallon [and]... we could make north of 50 million gallons.»

When Russia — which produces about 15 percent of the global supply of wheat — created a worldwide shortage two years ago by banning exports as a result of a heat wave and fires, wheat prices shot up between 60 and 80 percent.

So when world wheat prices soared by 50 per cent in 2010, Egypt massively increased spending on the cereal to sell to its poorest citizens as subsidised bread.

The recent rise in wheat prices makes the man who manages my farm tell me in years when the price is good that «acreages planted for wheat are up across Europe» or similar.

Poor U.S. winter wheat conditions, due to low moisture, have also supported strong wheat prices.

Crop condition reports and the January estimate of planted wheat acres should be the key factors affecting wheat prices, along with soybeans and corn.

This correlated sunspot numbers with English wheat prices.

See Tom Drake's England Wheat price graph 1259 - 1975.

Corn prices nearly doubled and wheat prices nearly tripled between late 2005 and late 2007.

Iffier than the impact of wheat grown on your own farm for personal use has on interstate wheat prices?

Likewise, Toronto - based baked - goods giant George Weston Ltd. recently announced an average price hike of 5 %, following a 60 % year - over-year jump in benchmark U.S. wheat prices.

Potential crop failure due to drought led China to buy wheat on the international market and contributed to a doubling of global wheat prices; the resultant price spikes had a serious economic impact in Egypt, the world's largest wheat importer, where bread prices tripled.

Biofuel enthusiasts in Italy may have just seen their hopes falter a bit: facing the prospect of mounting durum wheat prices, many pasta lovers in the country will undoubtedly wonder whether it's worth trading in their staple food for more wheat - based ethanol.

Of course, Svensmark et al are not alone in associating solar activity and cloudiness, see for example, Influence of Solar Activity on State of Wheat Market in Medieval England (Pustilnik, 2003), a seemingly radical hypothesis dating from British astronomer William Herschel, who suggested a link between sunspots and wheat prices in 1801.

Rising wheat prices have led AB Enzymes to promote a new application for Veron HF, which it says can be used to replace gluten in bakery products.

This is what more than 250 scientists, farmers, policymakers and economists have come to discuss in Addis Ababa, to seriously consider for the first time what was once, in a time when wheat prices were low, merely a wish.

Even corn, oat and wheat prices have sunk.

I'm not involved, but I do think corn and wheat prices are headed higher as we are right near a three week high now trading above the 20 - day moving average, but still below their 100 - day.

Wheat prices have slipped about 30 per cent in the past year to a decade low.

Wheat prices are depressed.