On the eighth floor of a yellow high-rise building in Rosengård in Malmö is Lantmännen's trading room for grain.

There, 60 percent of the Swedish harvests are bought and sold electronically. 

Every day on the computer screens, the grain traders have seen how prices have risen sharply.

The wheat that is important for Sweden has risen by about 35 percent, oats by 21 percent and malt by 65 percent - and that in just one year. 

- Sweden is affected by a poorer harvest.

But the big reason why prices are rising is that harvests in Europe, Russia, the United States and now also in Brazil were significantly worse than expected.

That is what drives up prices, says Mikael Jeppsson, who is head of the grain trade at Lantmännen.

"Focuses on the raw material"

The prices of grain are thus decided on an international market independent of the Swedish harvest.

Price increases that sooner or later end up on the bread shelf in the grocery store.

- We focus on the raw material and it has actually risen 30 to 40 percent in one year.

It is clear that somewhere the money must be taken out at the consumer level, and this will gradually take place during the autumn, says Mikael Jeppsson at Lantmännen.