But it's hard to be an expert in everything, and even a 10-minute shallow-dive into the web-based materials doesn't always give even a misleading taste of what's going on.
Try this.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/237912/global-top-wheat-producing-countries/
And the risky-if-controversial https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_wheat_production_statistics .
It's unlikely that 50%+ of the crop goes through the Black sea. That a large percentage of Ukr's and perhaps (maybe?) Russia's wheat crop goes by water through the megalake of darkness is possible.
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Map-of-well-established-wheat-trade-routes-from-the-Black-Sea-region-to-Central-Asia-and_fig1_333509260
The southern European steppe/black belt ("chernozem'"
is great for wheat--most ag products, actually.
But 50%+ of the *world's* output? I mean, just no. Report misread something. Most of China's wheat stays in China, most of India's wheat stays in India, and while the US and Russia and Canada and Argentina export a lot of wheat (this I knew before, you're not getting a citation--the knowledge probably predates HTML's existence), they still hold on to a fair %age.
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