The price of buckwheat is soaring in Moscow as crop shortages due to the 2010 summer drought and fires hit supplies. The normal harvest of 1 million tons looks set to drop to 600,000. Prices have already doubled in some stores and a 10 percent increase across the board for retailers looks likely. Buckwheat is a staple in the Russian diet. Russia has suspended grain exports to the end of the year due to the worst drought in more than a century.

Meanwhile, in Denmark, heavy rains have been taking their toll on the wheat crop.

Links to other sites: Forexyard, Moscow Times

Video, 14 August 2010 “very extreme rain” in Copenhagen

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