For Mario Pagliaro, the arrival of Canadian wheat in Italy will not reduce the price of our wheat

The international tensions affecting the wheat market are showing no sign of abating. So we went back to hearing Mario Pagliaro (in the photo above on the left), the chemist of the CNR with whom we have been holding a dialogue for years on wheat and on many issues related to agriculture and agri-food whose episodes are read and filmed throughout. Italy. Let's start with a piece of news that I find on his page; Facebook: in recent days 4 ships from Canada have unloaded almost 160,000 tons of durum wheat in the ports of Puglia. One, docked in Bari, even came from Vancouver, on the Pacific coast of Canada and carried nearly 56,000 tons. Another brought 30,000 tons even to the port of Manfredonia. An immediate collapse in durum wheat prices would be expected. Is that so? "No. And in fact on Tuesday, with the ships that were unloading, and the coming and going of the trucks on the Foggia-Manfredonia to bring the imported wheat to the companies that bought it, the price remained high ...