Sunflower and soybean harvest is almost complete in Ukraine, but corn has been threshed on only 38% of the area

According to the latest data from the Ministry of Agrarian Policy, as of November 2, 44.619 million tons of grain and leguminous crops were harvested from 8.706 million hectares or 75% of the planned area in Ukraine, with an average yield of 5.12 tons/hectare. For comparison, last year, as of October 30, 40.201 million tons of grain were harvested from 8.771 million hectares or 76% of the area, with an average yield of 4.48 tons/hectare.

On the specified date, the following crops were collected:

• corn – 10.776 million tons out of 1.715 million (37.5%) with a yield of 62.8 centners/hectare,
• buckwheat – 60.6 thousand tons from 46.6 thousand hectares (96%) with a yield of 13 centners/hectare,
• millet – 90 thousand tons from 38.8 thousand hectares (95%) with a yield of 23.2 centners/hectare,
• sunflower – 10.339 million tons from 4.649 million hectares (89%) with a yield of 22.2 centners/hectare,
• soybeans – 3.23 million tons from 1.492 million hectares (93%) with a yield of 21.6 centners/hectare.

In addition, 5.069 million tons of sugar beets were harvested from 102.2 thousand hectares or 60% of the area, with an average yield of 49.6 tons/hectare.

Ukrainian farmers are completing the active phase of sowing winter crops, with 5.348 million hectares sown as of October 28, of which 80.8% or 4.213 million hectares are grain crops.

In terms of crops, on the specified date the following were sown:

• wheat and triticale – 3.751 million hectares (82.6% of the forecast),
• barley - 390 thousand hectares (65.7%),
• rye - 72.5 thousand hectares (94.5%),
• rapeseed - 1.135 million hectares (102.7%).

The largest areas sown with winter grains are in the following regions:

• Mykolaivska – a total of 492 thousand hectares, of which wheat and triticale – 393 thousand hectares, barley – 97 thousand hectares, rye – 2 thousand hectares;
• Dnipropetrovsk region – a total of 432.6 thousand hectares, of which wheat and triticale – 385.2 thousand hectares, barley – 45.7 thousand hectares, rye – 1.7 thousand hectares;
• Kirovohrad region – a total of 379.9 thousand hectares, of which wheat and triticale – 348.4 thousand hectares, barley – 31.5 thousand hectares;
• Odesa region – a total of 330 thousand hectares;
• Poltava – 278.6 thousand hectares;
• Khmelnytskyi – 215.2 thousand hectares;
• Cherkasy – 214.9 thousand hectares.

Winter rapeseed was sown by farmers in 23 regions of the country, with the largest areas sown in Odessa (180 thousand hectares), Vinnytsia (125 thousand hectares), and Mykolaiv (98 thousand hectares) regions.