12.02.2022

With a crop of 9.18 million tons of wheat harvested from 2.1 million hectares Romania placed fourth in the European Union (EU) in 2022, data from Eurostat, the statistical office of the European more

06.28.2022

For the third month in a row, the European Commission is revising its forecast downwards for Romania's winter crops, including the grain production, while increasing at the same time its forecast for more

01.18.2022

Romania exported 4 million tons of wheat of the 2021 harvest, namely over 35%, by late December 2021, thus ranking first among wheat exporters in the Black Sea area and in the EU, according to Cezar more

07.28.2021

Fall crops – wheat, barley and rapeseed, have been harvested 60% to 90% and the average yield per hectare is the highest in a decade, Agriculture Ministry preliminary data show. more

07.22.2021

Preliminary estimates point to Romania’s wheat production reaching a record high of 12 million tons or EUR2.3 billion, with high yields in the west of the country and good harvests in the other more

10.26.2016

Egyptian authorities on Wednesday bought 240,000 tons of Romanian wheat, according to the data posted on the website of the General Authority for Supply Commodities (GASC) in Egypt. more

07.31.2015

Agricultural production reached the highest of the decade at the end of last year, but 2015 is turning out to be a rather bad year due to the drought that has already lasted for weeks and the more

07.15.2015

Egyptian authorities on Tuesday bought 120,000 tons of Romanian wheat for nearly $25.3 million, according to the data posted on the website of the General Authority for Supply Commodities (GASC) in more

04.20.2015

Egypt on Friday bought 60,000 tons of Romanian wheat from trader Nidera, for which it paid $13.38 million, Egypt's General Authority for Supply Commodities (GASC) said on its website. more

03.25.2015

Romanian wheat yield is estimated at 3.26 tons/hectare in March, 10% higher than forecast in the same time last year, according to the first European Commission 2015 estimate recently published. more

02.04.2015

Egypt has bought 180,000 tons of Romanian wheat Wednesday, for which it paid $42.82 million, Egypt's General Authority for Supply Commodities (GASC) said on its website. more

12.02.2014

Romanian wheat ended the first half of the commercial season in agriculture on the leading position in Egypt’s acquisitions, with 900,000 tons delivered in six months by eight traders. more

09.09.2014

US trader Cargill, French cooperative group InVivo and traders Nidera (China) and Bunge (US) are the biggest exporters of Romanian wheat to Egypt by quantities delivered or contracted in the first more

07.23.2014

The wheat price fell to less than EUR150/ton in mid-July, the lowest price for this time of the year in four years due to the bumper crops in Romania and in the EU countries. more

07.03.2014

French-held Louis Dreyfus group, one of the four largest grain traders in the world, has returned to agricultural trade in Romania after winning a $15.7 million auction to supply 60,000 tons of more

06.26.2014

Half of Romania’s wheat harvest, which could overpass 7.6 million tons, might reach animal farms as the heavy rains have favored pest attacks. more

06.17.2014

Romania’s wheat exporters delivered 4.7 million tons this season (ended on June 30), 87% of which outside the European Union. more

06.16.2014

Traders Cargill and Nidera have signed contracts to export 120,000 tons of Romanian wheat to Egypt even before the local farmers got a chance to harvest it, based on expectations of a bumper crop of more

06.05.2014

Romanian farmers will harvest 8.3 million tons of wheat in less than one month, which is the highest production in the last 27 years, according to the available data, and also 12% higher than in more

05.23.2014

German-held Almos group, which farms 7,000 hectares of land in Neamt County (NE Romania), has hedged against wheat price risk by selling 50% of its harvest via futures contracts on the Euronext Paris more

05.16.2014

The new-crop wheat to be harvested in mid-July will go on sale starting from an upper threshold of 850 lei (EUR192) per ton. The summer price will then go down as a result of abundant harvests in the more

03.03.2014

The Romanian division of Swiss-held trader Ameropa, one of the top three grain traders on the local market, collected $98.7 million between July 2013 and February 2014 from wheat orders placed by more

01.06.2014

U.S.-held companies Alfred Toepfer, Bunge, and Cargill last week won a tender to supply 180,000 tons of Romanian wheat worth $56.8 million to Egypt. more

11.14.2013

Grain traders exported 736,000 tons of Romanian wheat in August alone, which means they shipped 9.6% of the current harvest abroad. more

11.11.2013

Grain trader Alfred Toepfer, with sales of EUR424 million in Romania, has won an auction to supply 60,000 tons of Romanian wheat to Egypt for $280.73/ton, plus freight rates of $19.5/ton. more