In Ukraine, the harvest of early grain and rapeseed is almost complete, and in Russia wheat is threshed on 70% of the area

Forecasts of a good harvest of wheat and barley in Ukraine have been confirmed, and the volume of wheat production in Russia is still unknown, as a result of which wheat prices rose by 35% in August. As of August 19, 43.7 million tons of early grain and leguminous crops with a yield of 4.4 t / ha were harvested from 98% of the area or 9.2 million hectares in Ukraine, in particular: In addition, 2.7 million tons of rapeseed with a yield of 2.75 t / ha were harvested from 996 thousand hectares or 99% of the area. The largest grain harvests were collected in Odesa and Kharkiv regions - 3.977 million tons and 3.452 million tons, but the best yield was received by Khmelnytsky region: 6.09 t / ha of early grain crops and 3.5 t / ha of rapeseed. Yields above 5 t / ha were received by farmers of Vinnytsia, Ivano-Frankivsk, Kyiv, Ternopil and Cherkasy regions. Farmers have already begun sowing winter oilseed rape, given the forecasts of prolonged rainfall for the coming week. In Russia, ...