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The John Batchelor Show

"Preview: Colleague Simon Constable reports in Barron's that the farmers of Eurasia anticipate a poor wheat crop of Russia and Ukraine because of frost, -- a crop that Africa depends upon. More later."

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

News, Books, Society & Culture, Arts

4.62.7K Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2025

⏱️ 1 minutes

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"Preview: Colleague Simon Constable reports in Barron's that the farmers of Eurasia anticipate a poor wheat crop of Russia and Ukraine because of frost, -- a crop that Africa depends upon. More later."

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0:00.0

This is John Batchel, speaking with my colleague Simon Constable in the south of France, running for barons.

0:05.6

Wheat. The farmers of Eurasia believe that the wheat crop is going to be extremely challenged in these next months.

0:13.3

Why? Weather patterns. They're expecting a frost, damaging the wheat crop in Russia and in Ukraine.

0:21.6

Simon speaks to what that crop is needed for, not America, but Africa, the Mediterranean basin.

0:29.6

However, that doesn't relieve America because the Canadian wheat crop is now going to be tariff-driven unless in any event, bred ahead is not the rosy

0:43.8

scenario we could wish weather, patterns, geopolitics. Here's Simon Constable to explain. More of this

0:51.7

tonight. Not here, but I'm a bit worried about it in some other places,

0:56.3

particularly North Africa, where a lot of that grain from Russia and Ukraine goes. And also in America,

1:02.9

I think it might get a bit more expensive, although America is a far richer country than anywhere

1:07.9

else in the world. So maybe it'll be a blip.

1:12.1

Hopefully it will be a blip. But no one needs any more expenses at the moment.

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