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Wheat prices expected to really go up from where they are now...

SeaMaiden — Mon, 07 Mar 2022 13:55:23 GMT

This will affect a lot of foods people buy sadly... The more affordable foods....

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drizzellla — Mon, 07 Mar 2022 14:13:21 GMT

I also noticed the price of bread has gone up. My son likes one certain brand and type of bread for sandwichs.

The bread used to go on sale at least once a month or so. Now iI rarely goes on sale. So I end up paying $4.89 for a loaf of bread.

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Snowpuppy — Mon, 07 Mar 2022 15:20:01 GMT

The US and Canada import 0 wheat.

We are self sufficient but shortages on the world market mean there is a huge financial incentive to export more than usual.

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Cakers3 — Mon, 07 Mar 2022 15:27:59 GMT

@SeaMaiden wrote:
This will affect a lot of foods people buy sadly... The more affordable foods....

@SeaMaiden Which tend to be the "bad" carbs types of foods.

I don't know how some are surviving.

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Johnnyeager — Mon, 07 Mar 2022 15:39:09 GMT

The United States imports a relatively small amount of wheat grain from Canada.

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skatting44 — Mon, 07 Mar 2022 16:31:15 GMT

Talk abt the price of fertilizer 's impact on the upcomming food prices .

Many farmers are asking that they need to import fertilizers from other countries rather than Russia .

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Still Raining — Mon, 07 Mar 2022 21:18:17 GMT

Could be that a very major exporter is having their spring planting disruptioned?

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Isobel Archer — Mon, 07 Mar 2022 23:09:37 GMT

@Snowpuppy wrote:
The US and Canada import 0 wheat.

We are self sufficient but shortages on the world market mean there is a huge financial incentive to export more than usual.

The problem is fertilizer - which is made from natural gas - which we are trying to eliminate here.

So no we are not self sufficient - although we could be.

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Porcelain — Mon, 07 Mar 2022 23:15:38 GMT

Good time to go gluten free and plant a victory garden.

Flour in general is very bad for the human body. It's almost as bad as refined sugar. Both raise your insulin and blood sugar levels while increasing your fat storage.

I treat foods made with flour as being similar to candy. I eat them at times, but in moderation.

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deepwaterdotter — Mon, 07 Mar 2022 23:18:41 GMT

I bought a 10-pound bag of King Arthur flour when I last shopped at Costco. Should hold me for a while if I vacuum-seal and freeze.

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Duckncover — Tue, 08 Mar 2022 00:09:01 GMT

It seems our food supply is being hammered from every angle. We don't eat much bread, and I only buy a specific sourdough that I freeze anyway. It lasts longer since I only use it for toast. Cereal is already much higher so this will impact wheat cereals also. I noticed the cereal boxes are getting much smaller and the price is going up. Less for more. Smh

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hckynutjohn — Tue, 08 Mar 2022 02:31:51 GMT

@SeaMaiden wrote:
This will affect a lot of foods people buy sadly... The more affordable foods....

@SeaMaiden

Yep! And we get a lot of that wheat from?

hckynut 🇺🇸 🇺🇦

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Snowpuppy — Tue, 08 Mar 2022 00:32:25 GMT

Trading on the commodities market for wheat toďay was halted as the price skyrocketed.

Somehow we are being sold one crises after another so people panic buy everything from wheat to EV's.

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CrazyDaisy — Tue, 08 Mar 2022 00:35:40 GMT

@Snowpuppy wrote:
Trading on the commodities market for wheat toďay was halted as the price skyrocketed.

Somehow we are being sold one crises after another so people panic buy everything from wheat to EV's.

The Ukraine is a major exporter of wheat.

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RhondaRena — Tue, 08 Mar 2022 01:39:09 GMT

Flour can be stored for years if sealed in a dry cool place. Its a good idea to freeze the bags for a couple of days before putting away. I set some on our covered patio with below freezing temps last week. I noticed Flour had increased at Sams. I prefer the unbleached for making bread.

The US wheat supply was down last year. Other issues will just accelerate the shortages and price increases. I heard a reporter on the news saying that more baking will be done in the kitchen because of the supply chain issues.

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Jordan2 — Tue, 08 Mar 2022 01:44:26 GMT

What's not going up in price? Is breathing and walking still free?

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deepwaterdotter — Tue, 08 Mar 2022 01:47:05 GMT

@Jordan2 wrote:
What's not going up in price? Is breathing and walking still free?

It is if you are in good health.

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shoekitty — Thu, 10 Mar 2022 05:37:41 GMT

The weather, covid, flooding, freezes, shortage of farm workers have had a huge impact on cost of food here. We have begun to feel the jhard impact from the covid pandemic. The longer the pandemic lasted the more the shortages started to effect us. Cost of food and gas didn't arise overnight, here in California gas is 6.00-7.00@ gal If we could buy gas for 4.75,which they say is National average ...we would be in heaven. Gas has been rising here for 2 years it was about 3 bux for along time, it slowly crept up In the last week. it shot from in the 4 dollar range to the 6 dollar plus. Food had been rising since 2018. Shortages started with covid, eased a bit last fall and started in declining after new year. This has been coming.

here in California Govenor Newsom is going to put a measure to our congress to decrease gas prices by a temporary reduction of some existing taxes taxes on it. Which shoukd lower price per gallon quite a bit We will see. It was on news today i also read it in san Jose Mercury News.

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qualitygal — Sun, 13 Mar 2022 14:50:00 GMT

Feel so sorry now for the farmers. Bad things happen to them more than others it seems. We need them!!!

Came back to say, I'm not eating bread products or baking the way I did once. But I am a bread lover, and wheat is needed for hops in beer, for those who like beer. I don't drink that.

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CalminHeart — Sun, 13 Mar 2022 12:58:03 GMT

I don't know about wheat but I get really irritated when companies raise their prices saying it's about inflation when it's really about greed and making record profits.

Let's see American corporations do the right thing for a change. Make a profit but stop the price gouging.