On most areas, winter cereals are not fully ready for successful overwintering — NAAN

This year, the second half of the autumn growing season, primarily November, was quite favorable in terms of hydrothermal conditions for winter cereals – seedlings were obtained on significant sown areas, thanks to intense rains at the end of October, and there was quite good plant development for this time of year. At the same time, according to a report by NAAN specialists in Ukraine published by APK-Inform, winter wheat plants on quite significant areas will begin wintering in a relatively weak state, having no more than 3 leaves, and therefore how they will survive the winter and with what consequences will depend entirely on the weather conditions of the winter period. "At the end of the autumn period, the reserves of productive moisture under winter wheat, for example, grown after sunflower, were 39 mm in the arable soil layer, 90 mm in the meter layer, which was 122 and 87% of the long-term average, respectively. For the last six years before wintering winter cereals, such ...