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In Paris, prices at unprecedented levels: almost 300 euros per ton. The greatest tensions concern durum wheat: the adverse climate has ruined the crops, while production costs are running: from fertilizers to diesel for tractors
by Sissi Bellomo
The alarm on the increase in wheat prices is growing, which after five consecutive months of increases has now reached price levels higher than those that a decade ago triggered bread riots in many countries of the world, triggering the Arab Spring. In Chicago the prices in the session on Tuesday 2 exceeded 8 dollars per bushel for the first time since 2012, while in Europe they even went to all-time highs: the record, recorded on the Paris market, is 297 euros for …