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Why you should look in to trading grains right now - Australian Ivestment Education

As we’re going back to the fundamentals of what the impact of the geopolitical tension in Ukraine and Russia will have on the market, one of the topics Andrew Baxter mentions in this week's MONEY AND INVESTING show is the upcoming potential shortage of grains, specifically wheat.

As Russia and Ukraine are some of the largest producers of wheat, the trade sanctions towards Russia and the bombing of Ukraine during the season when their farmers normally would be busy planting the wheat crops, may lead to a global shortage of wheat. That will in turn drive up the price of wheat which is an important grain.

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