Italian farmers are complaining about a sharp drop in prices for durum wheat in the country due to uncontrolled imports.

The Association of Durum Wheat Producers in Italy calls the prices currently offered to farmers for wheat speculative. The agricultural portal of the country, Coldiretti, reported on the catastrophic drop in durum wheat prices in Italy in 2025: "In August, Italian farmers were offered 20 €/t less for wheat than last year, although its yield is below average." The Stock Exchange of the province of Foggia, ISMEA, confirmed the forecasts made by the agricultural consortia Coldiretti and CAI at the beginning of the harvest, in which the yield of durum wheat in the country was estimated at 3.7 million tons, significantly below the optimistic estimates of industry experts. In the province of Foggia, which is the country's leader in cereal sowing areas and produces 20% of the country's durum wheat, this year's wheat production due to drought will be 20% lower than usual. Despite the poor harvest, prices for durum wheat in July fell by 6% compared to the same period last year, and by 15% ...