4.3 thousand hectares of winter grain crops have been sown in the Vologda region in Russia

For the 2025 harvest, 4.3 thousand hectares of winter grain crops have been sown in the Vologda Region, including 1.5 thousand hectares of winter rye and 2.8 thousand hectares of winter wheat, the Svetich news agency reports, citing the press service of the Federal State Budgetary Institution Rosselkhoztsentr for the Vologda Region. The department emphasized that the condition of winter crops at the beginning of wintering was assessed as satisfactory. The plants went into wintering well-branched with a sufficient amount of sugars in the tillering node. The first phase of hardening of winter grain crops took place at optimal temperatures, but insufficient soil moisture had a negative impact on the creation of a reserve of nutrients. According to data as of December 6, the soil temperature at the depth of the tillering node was +2⁰С. Under such overwintering conditions (high temperature conditions at the depth of the tillering node, weak soil freezing), plants retain ...