Archive for 2014

Haiti welcomes the 18th annual meeting of the flour industry

The opening ceremony of the 18th annual meeting of the Association of the industrial mills in the Caribbean, the Caribbean Miller’s Association, took place this Tuesday, December 2, 2014, at the hotel Karibe, under the auspices of the mills of Haiti SEM.  During 48 h, the delegates of the different mills and related industries in the region will discuss and exchange around the topic “maintain affordable flour”.  James Marks said that ...

THE Philippine Association of Flour Millers on Friday told the Senate committee on agriculture and food that Turkey continues to dump flour in the Philippines despite the provisional dumping duty imposed by the Department of Agriculture in April This year.

The 2.28-percent to 39.26-percent provisional dumping duty has no effect at all due to a loophole allowed by the DA for seven Turkish flour mills that continue to export flour to the Philippines with no dumping duty, PAFMIL executive director Ric ...

In a previous article, I discussed why beef prices are elevated and will remain so through at least next year. And as it turns out, we’re entering a new age of higher prices for many agricultural commodities.

Around the globe, a perfect storm of events has begun to push the price of wheat higher (north of $7 per bushel). And as wheat prices rise, it’ll affect the price of flour and bread. In fact, flour has already jumped about 10% in ...

European MATIF wheat futures closed the week down slightly at 210.75 euro/mt from Monday’s open of 211.50 euro/mt after Russian-Ukrainian tensions pushed up values across all contracts months…although a signifcantly less rally than seen in prior weeks…EU wheat licenses contiue to be issued at a steady pace with 596,000mt issued during the course of the week…including 536,00mt of soft wheat…giving a marketing year total of 23.2 mmt compared to 16.4 mmt year-on-year…interesting to note that the 2012/2013 export total came ...