Russia's winter wheat and winter rye crop will be around 10% smaller than last year because it is too dry there too. That's what the Hygrometric Institute in Moscow estimates.
Russia, one of the world's largest grain exporters, harvested 64.3 million tonnes of winter wheat and winter rye in 2017. The entire grain harvest of the country was with 135.4 million tons so far the largest ever. From the previous harvest store at the beginning of this year's harvest still large remainders.
This transfer should allow Russia to maintain its exports at a high level in the next marketing period, according to the Ministry of Agriculture. Stocks in the farms and utilities, as well as the grain processing industry, are 16% larger than the year before. On April 1, the amount was reported by the state statistics agency Rosstat with 33 million tons.
In the southern parts of Rostov, Volgograd, Krasnodar and Strashnaya, it was recently very dry and sudden increases in temperature hindered in some other parts of the country, the sowing of summering.
It is too dry on the peninsula of Crimea annexed by Russia, but it is supposed to rain there in the coming days.
Russia's farmers sowed 17.1 million hectares of winter crops for this year's crop, up from 17.3 million hectares in the previous year. Currently, it is still busy with sowing of summer cereals, which is 75% complete. 23 million hectares are now ordered; on this date in the previous year, there were 28 million hectares.
Text: HANSA Derivatives Trading GmbH /
