(EFE).- The price of wheat futures on the Chicago Board of Trade – the global benchmark – reached $13.40 a bushel (27 kgs) on Friday, an increase of more than 50 percent since the start of the Russian military offensive in Ukraine on Feb. 24.
The last time the price per bushel exceeded $12.00 was during the world financial crisis of 2008.
For days on end, the Chicago exchange has had to suspend trading in wheat futures as prices hit the daily limit.
Together, Ukraine and Russia account for roughly 30 percent of world wheat exports, as well as 19 percent of corn exports and 80 percent of exports of sunflower oil.
Corn futures climbed above $7.82 a bushel on Friday, the highest since September 2012 and a rise of 15 percent since Feb. 23.
The combination of the closure of Black Sea ports and Western sanctions imposed on Moscow is limiting shipments of grains from Ukraine and Russia.
The World Food Program (WFP) sounded the alarm Friday about food shortages in areas of Ukraine and the potential for greater food insecurity at the global level.
“In a year when the world is already facing an unprecedented level of hunger, it’s just tragic to see hunger raising its head in what has long been the breadbasket of Europe,” WFP Director David Beasley said. EFE nqs/dr
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“Make America Dependent Again” on people who hate us, you traitors in Washington D.C. The stupidity of elitists!!!
My wife’s sister who with 64 year old husband has been hunkered in a Kyiv bomb shelter for the past week advised that a mother and her two daughters who left the shelter to leave the city were killed in a Russian bombardment today. But Joe no doubt is on his way for another sleepy weekend vacation in Delaware surrounded like Putin with his Secret Service body-guards. Maybe if Selensky makes it out and to America he can take over for Joe when he cashes out, or at least show him how to defend World Freedom.
Lesson learned, never elect an age depleted President whose stones are as shriveled as his brain.
THAT is if leftists can ever LEARN from their mistakes..
Glad my shelves don’t look like that, said a friend recently…
SINCE we should be growing all our OWN FOOD (other than food we CAN’T grow here, like coffee and such), WHY should what’s happening there, IMPACT OUR Prices here?
THAT IS SOMETHING i have never-ever understood about all this bullhockey.