There’s a worldwide wheat shortage – and now the effects of that could be coming home to your breadbasket. Phillip Millikin of ADM Belize Mills today confirmed that his company will be able to keep bakers supplied, if only just barely. That’s because ADM got wheat trucked in from Guatemala today. But that’s plan b; ADM’s wheat is generally shipped in by barge.
But the supply has been slowed because their barge has been queued up for the past ten days on the Mississippi River waiting for its regular supply of wheat. Because of wheat shortages in the u.s., that likely won’t be coming through until March first, so supply will continue to be scarce. But with regular trucks from Guatemala, there should be flour available mostly for wholesale. Millikin points out that the real problem is that the locally produced flour continues to be smuggled out of Belize into Guatemala and Mexico – because the controlled price is so much cheaper than flour in those countries.
