Ukraine’s corn market faces crisis amid excess wet grain and overloaded dryers

of corn — that was a clear signal,” Rachun said. According to him, this corn season is a real game of roulette. The market is flooded with offers of high-moisture corn. A large share of the crop still remains in the fields, dryers are operating at full capacity, and farmers without their own drying facilities simply have nowhere to take the wet grain. Some relief might come with frost, which could slightly improve the situation. “Each season brings new surprises — in recent years, everyone forgot about dryers, but now we’re seeing lines forming for anything capable of drying grain,” he noted. Rachun added that prices for dry corn are unjustifiably high due to limited supply, while the large volumes available on the market have elevated moisture levels — sometimes up to 25%. Such grain requires step-by-step processing to prevent overheating and quality loss, which ...