New Zealand: Russian invasion of Ukraine causing global shortage of wheat

Bread makers beware as our wheat supply has been hit by double-whammy - adverse weather and Russia's invasion of Ukraine are causing a global shortage. United Wheat Growers NZ chair Brian Leadley told AM while feeding wheat is fine, milling wheat used in flour is down a huge 30 to 40 percent. He said less wheat was initially planted in New Zealand due to lower demand predictions, but poor weather conditions have hit the supply. Leadley said the wet and humid weather this summer, which is the key time for harvesting, has caused a lot of the wheat grown to be unusable. But it's not just New Zealand suffering from poor conditions, Australia and Europe's wheat have been struck by wet weather dampening supply. "Milling wheats have been affected around the world and so it has just compounded to a major shortage in supply," Leadley said. The weather bomb comes after Russia's invasion of Ukraine caused a worldwide shortage of the staple grain. Russia and Ukraine are responsible for ...