date:Mar 07, 2014
Wheat prices in western Europe rose to a 3-month high on Wednesday boosted by heavy export demand and tensions in exporter Ukraine. May milling wheat, the most traded contract on the Paris-based Euronext market, was up 1.75 euros or 0.9 percent at 205.75 euros a tonne at 1730 GMT after hitting 207.00 euros, a three month high. New grain exports contracts with foreign trading houses are halted in Ukraine due to the crisis with Russia, Agriculture Minister Ihor Shvaika said on Wednesday.
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