Grain from Russia? Whatever happened to Iowa? Nebraska? Wheat growing for hundreds and hundreds of miles??
We act like we can’t grow anything here, produce anything here.
Yeah, we grow lots of corn, to put in our cars.
Don’t forget about Eastern Washington. IIRC, they’re one of the 10th largest wheat producers in the world.
America grows and exports corn.
'Nother thing - Ukraine has warm-water ports on the Black Sea, making bulk wheat exports much easier than by rail.
One of the geopolitical advantages the USA enjoys is that its' huge corn/wheat/soybean farming land, which the largest contiguous grain-growing area in the world, is traversed by the Mississippi drainage, enabled cheap transport of grain to world markets through New Orleans.
Look at a map of the Mississippi drainage:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mississippiriver-new-01.png
Russia has nothing like this. Ukraine sorta-kinda does, (the Dnieper River).
How much land is being cultivated for corn because of the ethanol mandates? I remember the good old days when Jimmy Carter was selling wheat to the Russians because they couldn’t feed themselves. Now the situation is reversed?
They are talking about global exports... That doesn’t mean we are importing any or all of that. But obviously what happens globally affects prices here also.