The latest official winter crop condition for Ukraine
published yesterday show that from the 6.9mha of crop that emerged in the
autumn 5.1mha or 75% are in good and satisfactory condition with 1.7mha or 25%
in poor condition.
Which doesn’t sound good and even more so if you recognise there
is a tendency to embellish the positive when collecting data so things could
actually be much worse.
With that in mind I have planned a crop tour route through
Ukraine’s more harder hit regions in southern and eastern oblasts to take a
view on the situation there myself.
But before that I set off to Russia in the morning to assess
the post winter crop condition there which has so far been reported as generally
good with no significant issues.
There is still plenty of time to subscribe if you would like
to follow the tour in real time as I post pictures and commentary on our
dedicated Crop Tour Twitter account, just drop me a line and I’ll send you details
by return.