Cold weather slows down the sowing of spring crops in Ukraine and the United States

Weather conditions for crops are currently quite good in both the Southern and Northern Hemispheres, which, against the background of the long war in Ukraine, is holding back the growth of world food prices. In Ukraine, the sowing of spring crops is actively carried out in areas free from hostilities. According to the Ukrhydrometeocenter, in the first decade of April the weather conditions were satisfactory for winter vegetation and sowing of spring crops. The sowing of peas, spring barley and wheat, oats continues, the sowing of sunflowers and sugar beets begins, and seedlings begin to appear in previously sown fields. After a shortage of precipitation in February and March, the rains of the first decade of April replenished soil moisture reserves and increased relative humidity. As of April 10, the reserves of productive moisture in the arable layer of soil under winter crops throughout Ukraine were 21-40 mm and more (sufficient and optimal level). Unsatisfactory soil moisture ...