There was enough rain. Huge crops of wheat and corn were produced.
VOA: special.2010.04.15
And because they haven't gotten the rain on the wheat pasture, the wheat pasture's pretty well gone right now, and that's why they're having to sell so many earlier than they normally do.
It is estimated that a fifth of Russia's wheat crop has now died due to the lack of rain in what is thought to be the country's worst drought for more than a century.