Ukraine speeds up winter sowing to profit from warm, dry spell - The Western Producer

Ukraine speeds up winter sowing to profit from warm, dry spell - The Western Producer:

"Ukrainian farms have speeded up winter grain sowing, taking advantage of a sudden spell of good weather, and have already sown 50 percent of the planned area, the agriculture ministry said on Tuesday.

Warm and dry weather set in at the weekend after a month of heavy rains across most of Ukraine which had made fields too wet for seeding machines and threatened the 2014 winter grain harvest.

Agricultural minister Mykola Prysyazhnyuk has said the wheat harvest could fall by seven million tonnes to 15 million tonnes next year and analysts say Ukraine’s exportable wheat surplus could be down to three million tonnes in 2014-15 from 9-10 million tonnes this season.

Weather forecasters say dry and warm weather could dominate most Ukrainian regions in the next 10 days, giving farmers the chance to complete the sowing."

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