10.11.2013

Romanian farmers are planting more wheat now that the corn and sunflower have been rendered riskier investments after a EU ban on a certain type of pesticides. more

10.02.2013

Romanian farmers are getting ready to plant the seeds for next year’s wheat crop and the rain in the last few days is a breath of fresh air to them since the best time for sowing is mid October. more

09.26.2013

Romanian wheat exports more than doubled to EUR300 million in the first nine months of 2013, from EUR146 million a year earlier, Agriculture Minister Daniel Constantin said Thursday. more

09.09.2013

Grain trader Alfred Toepfer International, controlled by U.S. corporation ADM, has won a contract for the supply of 60,000 tons of Romanian wheat to Egypt, between the first and tenth of November. more

08.09.2013

Romania this year reaped its biggest wheat and rye crop since 2005 and the second-largest one in over four decades, Agriculture Minister Daniel Constantin said Friday. more

07.23.2013

Ten countries in Northern Africa and Middle East imported EUR440 million worth of Romanian wheat in the July 2012-July 2013 commercial farming season, according to a ZF analysis based on Eurostat more

06.20.2013

Local farmers will harvest 6.1 million tons of wheat in upcoming weeks, 27% more than last year due to the good weather, therefore, prices are expected to be 15% lower than in the same period in 2012. more

05.29.2013

Mihai Anghel, who set up the Cerealcom Dolj group, with turnover of EUR120-130 million per year from agriculture, grain trade and wine production, estimates wheat productivity this summer will be 30% more

04.29.2013

Romania’s 2013 wheat production has been revised up in April by the European Commission to 5.8 million tons, a rise of almost 10% on the latest estimate made at the end of March. more

02.15.2013

Swiss trader Ameropa, with operations in agricultural raw materials and in fertilizer production on the Romanian market, won an auction to deliver 50,000 tons of wheat to Jordan at a price of $380/ton more

12.26.2012

If an investor had bought wheat worth EUR100,000 at the beginning of 2012, they would have been able to sell it for around EUR148,000 in the past few weeks of the year, yielding almost 48%, according more

12.04.2012

Alfred C. Toepfer International, the second largest trader in agricultural products on the Romanian market, won a tender in Egypt to supply 60,000 tons of wheat worth EUR16 million. more

11.05.2012

Grain trader Ameropa, the fourth largest on the agricultural raw material market, won two tenders to supply wheat to Egypt in September and October. more

09.12.2012

The wheat price on the Romanian market overshot 1,100 lei (EUR245) per ton early in September, two months after the harvesting of the new crop, and is 60% higher than a year ago. more

08.03.2012

Agro Chirnoghi, part of the Maria group controlled by a group of Lebanese businessmen, has, thanks to irrigation, managed to obtain an average production of 5 tons of wheat per hectare, down by a more

07.27.2012

Romania’s 2012 wheat production amounts to 4.7 million tons, down from 5.79 million tons last year, Agriculture Minister Daniel Constantin said Friday. more

07.05.2012

The wheat harvest will be lower but better this year because of the high temperatures of the last few weeks, says Adrian Porumboiu. The former football referee turned entrepreneur owns the Racova Pan more

04.20.2012

Romanian grain traders were eliminated in February and March from two tenders for wheat in Iraq worth a total of EUR20 million as a result of “faulty” deliveries made by Lebanese trader GT Group, more

01.15.2012

The price of wheat rose 5% between December 21, 2011 and January 11, 2012 to EUR176/ton, according to data from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MADR). However, the current price is more

12.31.2011

The good weather conditions in 2011 helped wheat, corn, and sunflower crops increase by up to 30% to the highest level in five years. more

12.29.2011

Romanian farmers harvested this year a record wheat crop of over 7 million tons, an increase of 30% on the previous year. Money-wise, this year’s crop is worth about EUR1.3 billion, considering one more

12.09.2011

This year’s drought might affect Romania’s 2012 wheat production, Agriculture Minister Valeriu Tabara said Friday, adding that the country has enough wheat reserves to cover local consumption for more

11.10.2011

The Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB.RO) on Thursday launches a wheat futures contract that will offer farmers a reference for the price of wheat, which they can use to sell their crop. more

09.16.2011

Romania's wheat reserve might be increased to 1.2 million tons, because of climate change and economic instability, Agriculture Minister Valeriu Tabara said Friday. more

09.16.2011

Romanian Agriculture Minister Valeriu Tabara said Friday that the country's wheat production this year exceeds eight million tons, of which four million tons can be exported. more