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Farmers have drastically scaled back their wheat crops this year in a trend that threatens to worsen the country’s cost-of-living crisis after soaring fuel and fertiliser prices from the Iran war and dry weather prompts growers to rethink the food staple.

https://www.afr.com/markets/commodities/energy-crisis-prompts-wheat-farmers-to-slash-crops-this-year-20260531-p602fe

AND USA

We’re having the worst wheat crop in decades. You’ll notice the ripple effects soon at the grocery store

The most widely produced class of wheat in the U.S., Hard Red Winter wheat, has a current production forecast of 515 million bushels. That may sound like a lot, but it would end up being the lowest since 1957, Hubbs said.

https://thehill.com/business/personal-finance/5901378-were-having-the-worst-wheat-crop-in-decades-youll-notice-the-ripple-effects-soon-at-the-grocery-store/

 

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