Amid Russia-Ukraine war, wheat farmers look to alter planting patterns

Russia's war in Ukraine has forced farmers worldwide to weigh in whether to change their planting patterns and grow more wheat this spring as the war has choked off or thrown into question grain supplies from a region known as “the breadbasket of the world”.

Countries like Australia and India have responded with increased grain exports, but there's little room for others to immediately do the same, mainly due to recurrent drought, experts have said.

Ed Kessel, who has a farm along a quiet stretch of western North Dakota, said he may plant some more wheat and ride the tide of high