The farmer in the Ukraine are currently in a similar situation, as in the previous year. The soil is too dry. This is a great problem for the income, in some regions less space with winter cereals but be ordered, so that the Ukrainian grain harvest is likely to be 2016 smaller. The drought is worse now compared to the also dry autumn of 2014.
Until April 2015, the soils were again supplied, with average annual precipitation, so that then the summer corn under optimal conditions could be sown. Now in October you registered the driest floors in the Ukraine for 30 years. The soil moisture in the Ukraine should be 20% below the 20-year average after the August was bone dry.
Current conditions reminiscent of the years 2010 to 2012. In 2012, Ukrainian wheat harvest was less than the average of the years 10%. In September, the weather was favourable. The temperatures were high and the floors navigable, so that the field order quickly came forward. The seed develops well before the winter calm.
The rape seed but became the first victim of the drought. It was ordered 40% less winter oilseed rape. With 500,000 acres that would be the smallest acreage since ten years. Wheat and barley planting is also behind the previous years. Some 1 million hectares of less wheat were ordered.
It is therefore very unlikely that the crop results of this year in 2016 to reach the Ukraine, because time is playing against the cultivation plans. The State-owned Ukrainian weather service warned of declining areas for growing cereals by 30%. Depending on how the weather cooperates in the spring the land with corn be ordered. Spring barley and spring wheat are usually a low yield potential in the Ukraine.
