Grain exports in Russia this season may set new records

This year, the grain harvest could reach 140 million tons with an average yield of 31 c/ha, including the gross wheat harvest will reach 90 million tons. This forecast was voiced by the general director of the analytical company ProZerno, Vladimir Petrichenko, during the conference “Agroinvestor: PRO crop production”. “These are very high figures, second only to the “cosmic” harvest we had a year ago,” he noted. The expert predicts the barley harvest at 21 million tons - this is slightly less than a year earlier, but still a good figure. “As always, corn production remains a mystery. Probably, its harvest will be at least 15 million tons, but the exact figure depends on whether there will be losses during harvesting,” Petrichenko emphasized. In the South and in the Black Earth Region, grain production will be very close to last year’s records; in the Volga region there will be some setback due to drought and unfavorable weather, but still the harvest there will be above average, ...