Posted on 04/23/2022 6:30:59 PM PDT by elpadre
During the 2022 sowing season, Ukraine sowed 3.02 million hectares of land with the main agricultural crops, which is 20.1% of the 14.4 million hectares planned for the current season, the data on which were adjusted the day before to increase by 7.1% (from 13.44 million hectares previously announced), the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food said on Friday.
According to data published on its website, over the past week from April 15 to April 21, the area under crops increased by 56%, from 1.94 million hectares to 3.02 million hectares.
It is clarified that by now the total area sown with spring barley is 802,200 hectares (more by 59,000 hectares per week), sunflower – 896,000 hectares (more by 462,300 hectares), spring wheat – 164,400 hectares (more by 18,000 hectares), peas – 107,200 hectares (more by 6,700 hectares), oats – 127,000 hectares (more by 15,400 hectares).
In addition, the sown area under potatoes is 366,200 hectares, sugar beets – 155,600 hectares, soybeans – 62,000 hectares, spring rapeseeds – 16,400 hectares, millet – 4,800 hectares, buckwheat – 1,000 hectares.
According to the Ministry of Agrarian Policy, Vinnytsia, Volyn, Zakarpattia, Kirovohrad, Odesa, Poltava, Rivne, Ternopil and Khmelnytsky regions have completed the sowing of spring crops of the early group: wheat, barley and oats. Almost 70% of the projected areas have already been sown with these crops.
Also in 2021, winter crops were sown for the 2022 harvest on a total area of 7.7 million hectares, including 6.5 million hectares of winter wheat, 1 million hectares of barley and 160,000 hectares of rye.
At the moment, agricultural enterprises have completed the first feeding of winter crops with nitrogen mineral fertilizers.
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It doesn’t say what percentage is needed to feed Ukraine and what percentage would normally be exported. In the past they have exported a lot of their crops.
7 million ha is about 17 or 18 million acres?
About 2 and a half acres to the Hectare..if I remember right-roughly.
So, if they get about 40 BU per acre in winter wheat..
Depends on the quality and weather from now on.
Lets see if those nations would chip in and NOT take advantage of the shipping rates.
With 20% planted there may not be enough to export. They may need it all for their own consumption.
What about the hops needed for beer?
They can’t export anything without a Black Sea port.
It is possible to export grain and other crops by rail and road. The port is helpful, but not critical. However, the open question is if they will have any to spare. Which is very much unknown.
The winter wheat has already been planted. Depends on how much they can recover.
The spring crops are in progress.
The Russians will claim a good portion of the east if this thing is not resolved soon.
As far as the crops here in the uSA are concerned. It is nearly to late. Winter wheat harvest will determine what that crop will yield and it does not look good in areas. Corn? Forget it. Most of that crop will yield low without fertilizer and herbicides and insecticides.
No matter what, with fuel prices high and yields looking low for most crops, we can expect a very high price rise.
“In the past they have exported a lot of their crops”
In looking over their war charts, Ukraine has most of its land planted in crops.
It’s all in tiny “family” farms unlike you’d see in Kansas, but extends between every village and burg.
Backyard gardens are everywhere. Little is forested, unlike the US. ‘Looks like countryside England from the air.
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