This includes flour and grain as well as detergents.

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Poor grain harvests blamed on the storms have pushed up flour prices, and will partly offset the effects of the sales rise, the spokesman said.

BBC: Goldilocks weather cheers baker

But an old woman, a shaman, stayed to tell Khabarov of mountains full of gold and gems, and of Dauria's fields of grain enough, he reckoned, to feed 20, 000 and get flour to Yakutsk in two months instead of four years.

ECONOMIST: The Amur River