Wheat price: In the spring of this year, due to the epidemic situation and the restrictions on grain exports by some countries in the world, people in some parts of China were very nervous, and there was a wave of hoarding of edible commodities such as flour, which caused the short-term "sky-high price" of wheat. In April, the price of high-quality wheat rose to about 1.3/kg. This short-lived "sky-high" wheat price is caused by many reasons. Today, the price of wheat has "cooled down". Why? There are three main factors: the wheat supply market is sufficient, the characteristics of eating old wheat instead of new wheat, and people rush to sell wheat after harvesting to save trouble, which leads to the "cooling" of wheat prices, which is also the law that appears every year in recent years. Southwest Henan is the earliest place in Henan to harvest wheat every year. This year, the wheat in our village has almost been harvested, and the harvesting cost per mu of wheat is in 35 yuan. However, during the flowering period, it rained for several days near the village, which had a certain impact on the harvest. But fortunately, although the yield per mu is not ideal, if the wheat fields watered in spring drought are opened, the yield per mu of wheat in our village will be 700~800 Jin. If you don't water in the dry days, the yield per mu of wheat will be reduced to 300~400 Jin.

However, at present, our local price of new wheat is only 0.8 yuan/kg according to its water content. If the sun-dried wheat can be sold to 1 yuan/kg. Why did the price of wheat "cool down" so quickly in just over a month? There are three main reasons: first, the wheat market is well supplied: we know that in April, some people hoarded flour for a rainy day. At the beginning, although we didn't go to the point of snapping up grain here, as a common sense of life, every household would still hoard a few bags of flour more or less. So now the demand for flour consumption is weak, the new wheat is coming down again, and the price is bound to fall back.

Second, new wheat is not just needed: many people should have heard that "wheat eats old and rice eats new". This is because the newly harvested wheat has high water content, high water content and viscosity when ground, and it is easy to deteriorate during storage, and it lacks certain toughness when making steamed bread and other pasta. Therefore, after harvesting, new wheat will not be directly processed into flour for use, and it needs to be stored for a period of time, so the eating effect is good. The water content of newly harvested wheat is high, so it is almost a rule that the price of newly harvested wheat drops every year.

Third, competing to sell new wheat: people don't want to store wheat, as long as there is enough at home. Judging from the situation of selling wheat in our local area, the people who grow wheat in the village have little strength to turn wheat back and forth because of the small permanent population and the small labor force of young and middle-aged farmers. Usually, they sell wheat at a few cents cheaper. There is another kind of people who work nearby. They collect wheat and eat it quickly. If they can sell directly in the field, they will be a few cents cheaper. They don't want to wait for the price of wheat to rise and miss the boat. These situations are very common in our local area. For large land contractors, harvesting hundreds of acres of wheat, even if stored, is a big problem. For agricultural products with low price increase, they usually don't "bet on physical futures", but for cash crops such as peanuts, they will store them to see the price increase.

These three basic reasons: Personally, every year when the new wheat just comes down, because wheat is not like rice-eat the new instead of the old, the price of wheat is at a low point, which runs through the whole wheat harvest period; The supply market of wheat is sufficient, which makes the problem of edible demand of new wheat more prominent; Grain collectors, seeing the profitable business opportunities here, facilitate people to buy at low prices, and then after the new wheat period, the price of wheat usually rises, and they make a lot of money out of the warehouse. To put it bluntly, wheat buyers take certain risks for convenience and to make money; In order to save trouble, ordinary people are unwilling to wait for the price increase for a small amount of wheat. These reasons have caused the current "cooling" wheat price.