Financial markes are often not very good at conflict related things. There's never been a war of this scale in the era of mass trading of agricultural commodity futures. People knew about gas and oil disruptions, but extrapolated that across two wheat because it is something else ukraine and russia produce. But there'are also some people who suggest that the absolute size of the futures market in agricultural commodities leads to speculative activity that raises the volatility levels here.

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