Better disease resistance in Canada’s first durum variety resistant to ergot may expand the wheat crop’s foothold on Manitoba farms.

Cambridgeshire arable farmer John Jeffries is shocked by the high level of ergot contamination he is finding in winter wheat this year. A 1kg sample of Dawsum feed wheat contained as many as 90 ...

Northwest A mix of smoky conditions and high temperatures for the region this week. Lack of precipitation is a concern as ...

At GASC's wheat tender last week the 0.05 percent ergot ceiling was maintained, and trading houses --- some of which had threatened to boycott future tenders if the fungus was banned entirely ...

Grassweeds can also get ergot, producing sclerotia that are smaller, thinner and more fragile than those found in wheat and which may be more prone to breakage, he suggests.

Egyptian state inspectors have rejected a 63,000 tonne shipment of wheat at its Romanian port of origin after checking for ergot, the first time Egypt has rejected a cargo at source since taking a ...

Sept. 7-9, 2016: Egyptian inspectors reject a 63,000-tonne Romanian wheat shipment at its port of origin for trace levels of ergot even though the cargo had been contracted under the old ergot rules.

Just last month, Egypt said it would accept imported wheat shipments containing 0.05 percent, a common international standard, of ergot in imports, settling a dispute with suppliers that had ...

Ergot Ergot is a naturally occurring fungus that lives on wheat. Now there's a battle to stop it getting into our food chain. Ergot isn't just a disaster for farmers when it infects crops.

The new inspection regime, launched this year, applied a more common global standard, allowing 0.05 percent of ergot in shipments and helping regular state grain tenders to proceed.