# Bakers, farmers struggle to make any dough on poor wheat crop

> Reuters reports that U.S. bakers and farmers are struggling with a shortage of high-protein hard wheat after two years of poor U.S. harvests, even as the global wheat market is well supplied. The shortage affects the $23 billion U.S. bread market.

- Date: 2017-12-11 · published 2017-12-11T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: market · region US · magnitude low
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/67513-bakers-farmers-struggle-to-make-any-dough-on-poor-wheat-crop
- Commodities: [Wheat (HRW)](https://feedsoft.ai/c/KWHEAT.md), [Wheat (SRW)](https://feedsoft.ai/c/WHEAT.md)

## Why it matters

Tight supply of high-protein hard wheat supports premiums for quality milling wheat while the broader wheat complex stays under pressure from global glut, so feed buyers face split pricing between milling and feed grades.

## Read by commodity

- WHEAT: neutral
- KWHEAT: bullish ▲

## Sources

- reuters.com: https://www.reuters.com/article/world/us/bakers-farmers-struggle-to-make-any-dough-on-poor-wheat-crop-idUSKBN1E518W/

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