# Pulses and Wheat

Their prices have moved together.

Source page: https://www.materialinsights.org/links/pulses-and-wheat/

[Pulses](https://www.materialinsights.org/commodities/pulses/) (commodity) and [Wheat](https://www.materialinsights.org/commodities/wheat/) (commodity): 1 relationship.

## How they are linked

### 1. Price link: competing crop

*Cost and price · Weak · Both ways*

In India, chickpeas and lentils compete with wheat for winter land, and government support prices for wheat shift this choice. The US bean proxy shows no link with wheat: monthly moves correlate at minus 0.03 and yearly moves at 0.16.

- **-0.03** monthly change correlation
- **0.16** 12-month change correlation
- **0.58** fitted elasticity

Built from the site data on production routes, energy flows, industry value chains, input-output tables and prices.