Friday, 7 August 2020

Russian harvest update

Russia’s 2020 wheat harvest has reached the halfway point, with 14.5MHA producing 53.4MMT at an average yield of 3.67MT/HA.

This compares with 13.3MHA, 48.0MMT, and 3.61MMT/HA on the same day last year.

The wheat harvest is now moving into the eastern spring wheat growing regions where there is some suggestion that hot dry weather may have reduced prospects.

We’ll find out soon enough.

The barley harvest is about a third of the way through at 3.0MHA producing 9.5MMT at a yield average of 3.16MT/HA.

Oilseed rape is about a fifth of the way through at 270KHA, 630KMT, and 2.33MT/HA.

Sugar beet harvest has started in Krasnodar with the first 2.2KHA producing 98.2KMT at an average yield of 44.6MT/HA.