Ukrainian farmers will start the 2017 spring grain sowing in
a few days, expecting to sow a total of 7.2 million hectares of various spring
grains, said the Agriculture Ministry on Monday.
Last year Ukraine’s spring sowing campaign started on February 24.
I wouldn't read too much into a few impatient farmers getting planters out early and muddling in a bit of spring wheat, the real spring crop planting (corn, sunflower, soy) is sometime off yet.
Anyway, it's not planting date that matters, its the emergence date that counts.
Ukraine’s spring sowing campaign could rise to about 7.2
million hectares from 7.0 million hectares last year according to the Ministry
of Agriculture.
They also said grain exports
could reach 41mmt in the current 2016/17 season which runs from July to
June having exported around 29mmt of
grain so far.
Elsewhere the Ministry report sugar exports increased 33 times in the current
marketing year - up to 344 thousand tons - compared to last year.
The Minister went on to say this result was achieved through
systematic and coordinated work of all parts of the production (and rain, don’t
forget the rain helped).