The foreign ministers of Russia and Turkey spoke by telephone on Sunday, a day after Ankara angered Moscow by sending five Ukrainian commanders home with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in what Russia called a violation of a prisoner exchange agreement. The Russian and Turkish foreign ministries said Sergei Lavrov and Hakan Fidan discussed the situation in…

One person has died and two others were transported to hospital after two grain elevators collapsed in Tynan, Texas, on July 4, according to officials. The incident occurred on the site of R & R Commodities, just off Highway 359 between Mathis and Skidmore in Bee County on Tuesday night, according to KIII-TV. Two of the grain…

ANKARA, Turkey—Russia agreed to a two-month extension of a deal that has allowed Ukraine to ship grain through the Black Sea to parts of the world struggling with hunger, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced Wednesday, a boost to global food security after the war drove up prices. Turkey and the U.N. brokered the breakthrough…

GREENWOOD, Miss.—A South African teenage farm worker who suffocated to death after falling into a grain storage bin would still be alive had a Mississippi soybean farm followed federal workplace safety standards, inspectors with the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration determined. Bare Bones Farms, located in the Mississippi Delta town of…

WARSAW, Poland—Polish and Ukrainian officials say convoys of Ukrainian grain transiting Poland for export abroad will be sealed, guarded, and monitored to ensure the produce stops flooding the Polish market and playing havoc with prices. Tuesday’s announcement came after two days of intensive talks following protests by Polish farmers, who said much of the Ukrainian…

KYIV/RAVA-RUSKA, Ukraine—Slovakia on Monday joined Poland and Hungary in banning grain imports from Ukraine as even Kyiv’s staunchest allies come under domestic pressure to shield their agriculture markets. The heat is mounting on Brussels to work out a European Union wide solution after Warsaw and Budapest announced bans on some imports from Ukraine at the…

MOSCOW—Russia on Thursday said there would be no extension of the UN-brokered Black Sea grain deal beyond May 18 unless the West removed a series of obstacles to the export of Russian grain and fertilizer. The Ukraine grain Black Sea export deal was brokered by the United Nations and Turkey in July last year to…

GENEVA—A Russian delegation at talks with senior U.N. officials said Monday that Moscow is ready to accept an extension to a grain export deal that has helped bring down global food prices amid the war in Ukraine—but only for 60 days as the Kremlin holds out for changes to how the arrangement is working. The…

With the dawn of the industrial age, white flour—once available only to the wealthy—became available to all. By the early 1900s, white bread had largely replaced “coarse” whole-grain bread, and white flour added to sugar and spices resulted in the proliferation of cakes, donuts, and pastries in the diets of both the rich and poor….

KYIV/NEW YORK—The United Nations, Turkey and Ukraine are pressing ahead to implement a Black Sea grain deal with a transit plan in place for 16 ships on Monday, despite Russia suspending its participation in the pact that has allowed the export of Ukrainian agricultural products to world markets. Russia, which invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24,…