Russia's had a bumper wheat harvest, particularly good weather for wheat in russia this year. A lot of countries that buy wheat from russia are relatively neutral towards the war. So that side of things really hasn't been disrupted very much at all. And it's made up for the fact that ucranium wheat exports this year will be considerably lower than they were last year.
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