Ukraine lobby sees sharp fall in 2014 winter wheat area - The Western Producer

Ukraine lobby sees sharp fall in 2014 winter wheat area - The Western Producer:

"Heavy rain across Ukraine, which has already slowed winter grain sowing, may slash the area under winter grains sown for 2014 to about 7.4 million acres from 20 million as originally expected, Ukrainian grain lobby UAC said on Friday.

Leonid Kozachenko, president of the Ukrainian Agrarian Confederation, told reporters that fields were too wet for seeding machines and the optimum time for sowing had passed.

Kozachenko amended the estimate he initially gave on Friday, saying that the total grain area, sowing for 2014, was likely to include six million acres of winter wheat. That is compared with the government plan of sowing about 17 million acres of winter wheat this year.

Earlier he said he expected the area under winter wheat to fall by around five million acres."

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