French durum wheat shortage; towards an increase in the price of pasta?

Will we run out of pasta this winter? French pasta manufacturers alerted this week to an upcoming shortage of durum wheat due to a succession of climatic phenomena in producing countries, particularly in Canada and Europe. A situation which raises fears of an increase in the price of pasta in the trade. For the leader of the French pasta maker, "this shortage is linked to climate change", first of all evoking a drought in Canada, affected this summer by an exceptional heat wave. Panzani looks particularly at the French situation, because the manufacturer uses 100% French wheat for its French production. A situation where lower harvested wheat levels combine with lower grain quality. "It rained from mid-June to the harvest, and this clearly affected the harvest, explains François Rouilly. In France, in terms of quantity, we are rather in a low average, we have a fairly heterogeneous quality of durum wheat, some of this wheat will be quite difficult to use for the manufacture of our ...