Wheat prices fell by around 7% last week as concerns about crop damage due to a late winter freeze in the US were replaced by expectations of a bumper harvest. Prices have recovered a little this week, but we continue to expect the benchmark US wheat price to fall to around 500 cents per bushel by the end of 2012, a decline of close to 20% from its current level, and to drop further in 2013.
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