Italy buys some of its most important ingredients right here in the U.S. “Where does Italy get some of its best wheat and they never guess Arizona,” Eric Wilkey, president of Arizona Grain ...

“The war in Ukraine has already shocked the global food system,” said Kai Ryssdal, host of National Public Radio’s Marketplace, in a March 16 interview with Eric Wilkey, president of Arizona ...

Eric Wilkey of Arizona Grain, Inc. is seeing the issue firsthand. Area farmers were in the middle of harvest, and Wilkey still hadn’t received the rail cars he needed. “We’ve got a whole ...