BBCNEWS Talking Business March 28, 2022 01:38:00
Before this war. just take us back, what was driving those increases? what we've been seeing for at least the last six months was a series of events globally amongst the majorfood producers around the world. we just seem to be suffering all kinds of various supply setbacks, whether it was argentina with its drought or very dry weather in the us and canadian wheat—growing areas, brazilian drought, all the big grain—producing countries, for some reason or other ended up with below—average crops. the supply side is already very tight. on top of that, we have very strong rising energy prices...