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Jun. 13, 2022 by Keith Good, University of Illinois' FarmDoc project Reuters writer Pavel Polityuk reported today that, "Farmers of Ukrainian southern Odesa region have started the 2022 grain harvest taking advantage of favourable weather, regional officials said late on Sunday. "Ukraine has already completed the 2022 grain sowing but the agriculture ministry gave no 2022 grain crop outlook. "The ministry had said farmers planned to sow 14.2 million hectares of spring grains this year, down from 16.9 million hectares in 2021 due to the Russian invasion." The Reuters article noted that, "The Odesa regional administration said local farmers had started winter barley threshing and producers would harvest a total of 1.06 million hectares of early grain crops, including 244,000 hectares of winter barley. "Farmers also will harvest 551,000 hectares of winter wheat." And on Friday, USDA's Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) indicated in its monthly World Agricultural Production report that, Ukraine corn production for marketing year 2022/23 is forecast at 25.0 million metric tons, up 28 percent from last month, but down 41 percent from last year. "Yield is forecast at 5.56 tons per hectare, essentially unchanged from last month, and down 28 percent from last year. Harvested area is forecast at 4.5 million hectares (mha), up 29 percent from last month, but down 18 percent from last year. To read the entire report click here. Tweet |
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