Ample wheat, weak currency boosts Russia’s exports. Russian wheat growers have harvested bumper crops recently, which has helped the country significantly increase its exports. Here, combines work on a wheat field of the Solgonskoye farming company near the village of Talniki in Siberia in 2015. For the first time since the days of the tsars, Russia this year will be the world’s largest wheat exporter at an expected 35 million tonnes.