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The hits just keep coming.
“As Russia’s invasion chokes off Ukrainian wheat exports, pushing up bread and noodle prices, the global harvest faces an added test: extreme weather.
“Droughts, flooding and heatwaves threaten output from the U.S. to France and India, compounding shrinking production in Ukraine. Just about every major producing region is facing one threat or another. The one notable exception is Russia, which is shaping up for a bumper crop and stands to benefit from the rising prices and limited supply elsewhere.
“Warm, dry weather is a burgeoning concern” in the EU, while “dryness [is] plaguing the U.S. Central Plains,” and “[Canadian] producers are now trying to plant in fields that are either too wet or too dry,” the Bloomberg article said.
"India is facing “blistering heat,” while “there are concerns about [China’s] winter wheat after unusual autumn floods.”
Global Wheat Production Faces Weather Threats, While U.S. Food Prices Climb • Farm Policy News
Bloomberg writers Megan Durisin, Kim Chipman, Jen Skerritt, and James Poole reported today that, "As Russia’s invasion chokes off Ukrainian wheat exports, pushing up bread and noodle prices, the global harvest faces an added test: extreme weather."
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“As Russia’s invasion chokes off Ukrainian wheat exports, pushing up bread and noodle prices, the global harvest faces an added test: extreme weather.
“Droughts, flooding and heatwaves threaten output from the U.S. to France and India, compounding shrinking production in Ukraine. Just about every major producing region is facing one threat or another. The one notable exception is Russia, which is shaping up for a bumper crop and stands to benefit from the rising prices and limited supply elsewhere.
“Warm, dry weather is a burgeoning concern” in the EU, while “dryness [is] plaguing the U.S. Central Plains,” and “[Canadian] producers are now trying to plant in fields that are either too wet or too dry,” the Bloomberg article said.
"India is facing “blistering heat,” while “there are concerns about [China’s] winter wheat after unusual autumn floods.”
