Wheat Prices Soar on Ukraine Fears, but US Growers Can’t Cash in

Wheat Prices Soar on Ukraine Fears, but US Growers Can’t Cash in
A scout on a Wheat Quality Council tour checks a spring wheat field in east-central N.D. on July 24, 2018. Julie Ingwersen/Reuters
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CHICAGO—After Russia’s invasion of Ukraine sent global wheat futures soaring, U.S. farmer Vance Ehmke was eager to sell his grain.

Local prices shot up roughly 30 percent to nearly $12 a bushel, about the highest Ehmke could recall in 45 years of farming near the western Kansas town of Healy.