Risk of tighter agricultural export restrictions growing

The recent tightening of export restrictions has been limiting the supply of staple agricultural commodities available to global markets and pushing up prices. In light of the ban on wheat exports from India, we’ve raised our forecast for the price of wheat from 800 US cents per bushel to 900 by end-2022.

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