http://www.farmingnewsdaily.co.uk This is the RSS syndication feed for farmingnewsdaily.co.uk. With around nine to 10 million tonnes of foreign wheat purchased annually, Egypt is the largest wheat importer in the world with a bill of almost $3 billion a year. http://www.farmingnewsdaily.co.uk/news/020513/grain_imports_.aspx Argentine Beef Packers S.A. Thu, 02 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT Egypt's Islamist-led government must be dreaming if it expects a bumper wheat harvest over the next six weeks that will save the country billions of dollars in imports, says farmer Farid Boshra Abdel Malek. http://www.farmingnewsdaily.co.uk/news/230413/the_grain_harvest_.aspx Argentine Beef Packers S.A. Tue, 23 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT Egypt and Sudan want to launch joint farming, livestock and biofuel projects to help double bilateral trade, Egypt's President Mohamed Mursi said during his first visit to Khartoum. http://www.farmingnewsdaily.co.uk/news/150413/egyptand__sudan_plan_farming_livestock_projects.aspx Argentine Beef Packers S.A. Sat, 20 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT Egypt, Sudan plan farming, livestock projects. http://www.farmingnewsdaily.co.uk/news/160413/new_farm_projects_with_sudan.aspx Argentine Beef Packers S.A. Tue, 16 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT Egypt aims to become self-sufficient in sunflower oil by using farmland provided by neighbouring Sudan as it moves to end large purchases on world markets, Supply Minister Bassem Ouda said on Sunday. http://www.farmingnewsdaily.co.uk/news/160413/sunflower_oil.aspx Argentine Beef Packers S.A. Tue, 16 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT A plague of locusts hit Egypt this weekend, causing some citizens to burn tires in an attempt to ward them off. http://www.farmingnewsdaily.co.uk/news/070313/locusts_strike_again_.aspx Argentine Beef Packers S.A. Sun, 10 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT Funding problems are forcing top world wheat buyer Egypt to consider abandoning its regular public tenders that have been a centrepiece of world grain trade for decades. http://www.farmingnewsdaily.co.uk/news/050313/a_good_wheat_market_if_you_can_get_paid_.aspx Argentine Beef Packers S.A. Tue, 05 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT Ufac-UK has appointed Unitrade Egypt Company as a new distributor for their dairy and poultry supplements for the whole of Egypt. This was marked by a product launch, attended by 60 farmers, owners and managers in Cairo. http://www.farmingnewsdaily.co.uk/news/220213/ufac_uk_appoints_egyptian_distributor.aspx newsroom - farmingnewsdaily.co.uk Fri, 22 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT Nomani Nasr Nomani is arguably the most powerful figure on the global wheat market; he is also the man who ensured Egypt's revolution for freedom didn't turn into "a revolution of hunger". http://www.farmingnewsdaily.co.uk/news/111012/buying_wheat_.aspx reuters Thu, 11 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT In September 2010, Farmer-to-Farmer (FtF) volunteer Damon Szymanski, a dairy farmer from Wisconsin, traveled to Egypt to train 75 small dairy farmers in simple, low-cost technologies to increase the quality and quantity of their milk. http://www.farmingnewsdaily.co.uk/news/260912/american_help_for_dairy_farmers.aspx 5mpublishing Sat, 29 Sep 2012 00:00:00 GMT A new strain of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) in Egypt could aggravate discontent among the rural poor and prolong the country's political turmoil. http://www.farmingnewsdaily.co.uk/news/160712/a_new_strain_of_fmd_.aspx oie.com Mon, 16 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT Egyptian scientists recommend moving poultry farms to the desert, away from residential areas, as a solution to Egypt's bird flu problem. http://www.farmingnewsdaily.co.uk/news/130712/fighting_bird_flu_.aspx Argentine Beef Packers S.A. Fri, 13 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT Egypt has bought 1.1 million tonnes of local wheat so far in the 2011/2012 season despite diesel shortages that have hampered harvesting, an official at the Ministry of Supply and Domestic Trade said late on Monday. http://www.farmingnewsdaily.co.uk/news/060612/a_million_tons_of_wheat_bought_.aspx Argentine Beef Packers S.A. Wed, 06 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT 100,000 cattle struck by new Egyptian FMD outbreak. http://www.farmingnewsdaily.co.uk/news/130412/fmd_claims__cattle.aspx beefcentral Fri, 13 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT A new strain of Foot and Mouth Disease, known as SAT2, has broken out in Egypt and is threatening to spread to other areas of northern Africa and the Middle East. http://www.farmingnewsdaily.co.uk/news/120412/new_strain_of_fmd_.aspx Argentine Beef Packers S.A. Thu, 12 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT A unit of Egyptian private equity firm Citadel Capital plans to cultivate up to 40,000 acres of farmland in South Sudan to sell staple foods such as maize in the newly-independent nation, an executive said on Tuesday. http://www.farmingnewsdaily.co.uk/news/090412/farming_in_sudan_.aspx reuters Mon, 09 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT A unit of Egyptian private equity firm Citadel Capital plans to cultivate up to 40,000 acres of farmland in South Sudan to sell staple foods such as maize in the newly-independent nation, an executive said on Tuesday. http://www.farmingnewsdaily.co.uk/news/060412/buying_farms_in_south_sudan_.aspx Argentine Beef Packers S.A. Fri, 06 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT An influx of suppliers, including Council members Cargill and ADM, are helping to redefine Egypt’s current DDGS market. http://www.farmingnewsdaily.co.uk/news/300312/buying_more_brewers_grain_.aspx Argentine Beef Packers S.A. Sun, 01 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT Lower input prices for corn, soybeans and day-old chicks compared to last year are more than offsetting a decrease in broiler and table-egg prices in Egypt. http://www.farmingnewsdaily.co.uk/news/290312/the_poultry_market__0.aspx 5mpublishing Thu, 29 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT Egypt reported five H5N1 avian influenza outbreaks in October, and the latest disease surveillance from Indonesia suggests that the highest incidence is in Bali, where three human fatal infections were recently reported, according to an overview from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). http://www.farmingnewsdaily.co.uk/news/071211/bird_flu_.aspx newsroom - farmingnewsdaily.co.uk Wed, 07 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT Two recent research trials in Egypt involving US sorghum demonstrated the potential of including US sorghum in broiler rations. http://www.farmingnewsdaily.co.uk/news/071011/feeding_poultry.aspx newsroom - farmingnewsdaily.co.uk Fri, 07 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT Internationally prohibited insecticides have been found to be used by certain Egyptian farmers in the Nubariya region. Many of these pesticides are believed to have been smuggled in from China and Israel, according to Mohamed Abdel Qader, head of the Egypt’s Farmers Syndicate. http://www.farmingnewsdaily.co.uk/news/120911/insecticides.aspx newsroom - farmingnewsdaily.co.uk Mon, 12 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT While Egypt does produce sorghum domestically, it is of the tannin variety and is only used for human consumption. Egypt has never imported sorghum and there is little knowledge among livestock and poultry producers about the benefits of non-tannin sorghum, such as that found in the United States, in feed rations. However, in an effort to lower feed and production costs, the Egyptian government is looking for ways to diversify the number of ingredients available to producers. http://www.farmingnewsdaily.co.uk/news/040811/sorghum_for_poultry.aspx 5mpublishing Thu, 04 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMT The US Grains Council has successfully completed two sorghum feeding trials in Egypt to demonstrate the use of non-tannin sorghum in broiler feed rations and to assess the nutritive value based on actual Egyptian conditions. http://www.farmingnewsdaily.co.uk/news/030811/feeding_poultry.aspx newsroom - farmingnewsdaily.co.uk Wed, 03 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMT A former Egyptian agriculture minister has been detained for questioning after he was accused of allowing cancer-causing pesticides into the country during his tenure. The state-run MENA news agency reported on Sunday that Youssef Wali, the country’s agriculture minister from 1982 to 2004, is also being investigated for corruption. http://www.farmingnewsdaily.co.uk/news/030811/former_farm_minister_arrested_.aspx newsroom - farmingnewsdaily.co.uk Wed, 03 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMT Egyptian purchases of US distillers dried grains with solubles (DDGS) reached 21,879 metric tons in the first quarter of calendar year 2011. http://www.farmingnewsdaily.co.uk/news/030611/buying_brewers_grain.aspx newsroom - farmingnewsdaily.co.uk Fri, 03 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMT A company controlled by Saudi Arabia's Prince Alwaleed bin Talal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud says it has reached an agreement with the Egyptian government over disputed land. http://www.farmingnewsdaily.co.uk/news/130511/saudi_farm_dispute_.aspx newsroom - farmingnewsdaily.co.uk Fri, 13 May 2011 00:00:00 GMT In the gritty gusts of a sandstorm, men in turbans and women in veils stood uncomplaining for hours outside a ramshackle kiosk, lined up for their daily loaves of "life." http://www.farmingnewsdaily.co.uk/news/140411/wheat_imports.aspx newsroom - farmingnewsdaily.co.uk Thu, 14 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMT Sales of 609,000 metric tons (23.9 million bushels) this week, as reported by the Foreign Agricultural Service, are up considerably from sales of 366,600 tons (14.4 million bushels) reported a year ago – yet strong sales of late are only part of the story. http://www.farmingnewsdaily.co.uk/news/230311/us_corn_imports_.aspx newsroom - farmingnewsdaily.co.uk Wed, 23 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT Sales of US corn to Egypt have been strong in recent weeks as, the country recovers from downtime and shipping delays resulting from the demonstrations and political unrest in the nation in late January and February. http://www.farmingnewsdaily.co.uk/news/210311/us_corn_imports.aspx newsroom - farmingnewsdaily.co.uk Mon, 21 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT At first glance there would seem to be little that unites the revolution in Egypt, the struggle to combat drought in China, and campaign politics in Pakistan. Yet it turns out that all three of these stories have something in common: the spike in global food prices. http://www.farmingnewsdaily.co.uk/news/140311/media_having_a_field_day_on_food_shortages.aspx newsroom - farmingnewsdaily.co.uk Mon, 14 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT The political turmoil in Tunisia and Egypt is a reminder of the days when emerging markets were the Wild West of investing. http://www.farmingnewsdaily.co.uk/news/150211/dealing_with_the_food_crisis.aspx newsroom - farmingnewsdaily.co.uk Tue, 15 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMT