farmer was hit with ergot, a fungal disease, in his wheat crop. "Actually, it was my dad who spotted it and pointed it out to me. And he hadn't seen it for many, many years," says Olson ...

Widespread ergot contamination in wheat is being reported by Camgrain this harvest, with every other load coming into the farmer-owned grain storage and processing facility containing the ...

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On Saturday, the Egyptian government backed down from it's zero-tolerance policy on the presence of ergot fungus in imported wheat shipments. The policy had been adopted and abandoned several times in ...

“Spring oats are very weathered, but spring wheat has held up – other than some ergot, it’s been fine at 13-14% protein and 300+ Hagberg,” Mr Clay says. Yields have been mixed, and winter ...

“We don’t see the common stuff, we see the unusual stuff.” The fungus ergot was detected in a wheat seed sample. Ergot is uncommon but the affected seed lot was produced in western ...

Egypt, the world's largest buyer of wheat, has seen its imports grind to a halt since it imposed a ban on ergot last month, with three successive state tenders cancelled on the back of mass ...

Alarm bells began ringing in Egypt when a 63,000 tonne wheat shipment from France arrived in December. Traces of the ergot fungus were found, and even though they were within the permissible ...

Ergot is a fungus that can grow on grains such as rye and wheat. Symptoms of ergot poisoning or ergotism vary but include dizziness, convulsions, and psychosis. In the past, midwives and doctors ...

which rejected several wheat cargoes this year for fungus contamination, is set to instruct officials to follow international standards that permit a small amount of the fungus known as ergot in ...