The first Black Sea Crop Tour of 2016 season is now finished.
Over the course of the last ten days we travelled 3,100km
through Russia and Ukraine; crossed 16 Oblasts; made 584 crop observations and
64 detailed crop assessments; posted 172 Tweets on the dedicated crop tour
Twitter account (@BSCT_01) including 80 photographs and 39 video reports; interviewed
four farmers; slept in nine different locations including a train and a boat; consumed
an estimated 4.5 litres of borscht and were stopped only twice.
All in all a successful trip.
The data we collected has now been presented and is
available in two reports, one for Russia and one for Ukraine, which include
detail on our route, methodology, what we found and my opinion on the condition
of the winter wheat crop and the potential as it moves into the spring.
Drop me a line for subscription details if you would like a
copy of either report or for future tour information planned for the rest of
this season.
After a brief period of recovery we set out again in
May/June to look at the post-emergence condition of spring planted corn, sunflower
and soya with particular focus on limitations to crop development from dryness
or cold (or indeed even heat).
After that we will head out again to look at the pre-harvest
yield estimations of all crops in July and August.
Feel free to drop me a line via the “Contact me here…” box
to the right of this page if you have any questions.
Thanks for all the continued support.