How weather conditions affected the development of winter grain crops in Ukraine

Weather conditions in October in Ukraine were characterized by high air temperature and insufficient rainfall, the lack of which proved to be the main limiting factor in ensuring the normal development of plants of winter grain crops during most of the autumn period. This is stated in the monthly review of specialists of the National Academy of Agrarian Sciences of Ukraine. "The average air temperature for the month was 11.8°C, which was 2.7°C higher than the average long-term norm. The amount of precipitation was 28.1 mm, or 74% of the climatological norm for this calendar period. Over the past 10 years, the weather in October 2020 was slightly warmer compared to the current year, and during this time less precipitation was recorded in 2015, 2018 and 2021," the scientists noted. Forecasting the future state of crops, experts remind that the termination of the autumn vegetation of winter grain crops, according to the average long-term data in most of the grain-sowing regions of ...