Yesterday, Russia’s Minister of Agriculture, Dmitry Patrushev, presented an update to Vladimir Putin, here’s a summary of what he had to say...

The UK and Ukraine signed a “Political, Free Trade and Strategic Partnership Agreement”, which, according to the UK government, will “ensure...

I'm just back from a business trip and my advice is don’t travel at the moment, it's chaos. Airports are so desperate for business t...

Wheat - 83.8MMT from 27.2MHA (92.3%) at a yield of 3.09MT/HA. Barley - 21.3MMT from 7.8MHA (91.7%) at a yield of 2.72MT/HA. Corn - 1.9MMT fr...

Wheat - harvest finished, 26.96MMT from 6.5MHA at a yield of 4.11MT/HA, clean weight will be around 26.2MMT to 26.4MMT and is down nearly 10...

The latest Black Sea crop report has just been sent out to our subscribers. The report covers Russian and Ukraine harvest progress and inclu...

Just back after a week in Moldova checking in on a farm. The last trip I went on, pre-lockdown, was also to Moldova, 184 days ago! It was go...

Russias Ministry of Agriculture held a meeting this week, to review activities of 2019, and outline the strategic objectives for 2020. In ...

The UK government says they will reduce the administrative burden for farmers to enable them to focus on delivering environmental outcomes u...

Yesterday, Ukraine's Ministry of Economy along with unnamed agricultural associations, discussed the grain market, weather conditions, f...

Last year, in the Russian region of Udmurtia, four schools ran pilot agricultural classes for about 100 students.  Demand has grown with 400...

Ukraine’s early crop harvest is all but done, the latest results are as follows. Wheat 98.9% cut, 26.6MMT, 4.09MT/HA Barley 99.6% cut, 8...

Ukraine’s Ministry of Economic Development, Trade, and Agriculture have adjusted their 2020 inflation forecast to 5.9%, down from their prev...

Smart Hemp Ltd. will start the construction of a hemp processing plant in Russia later this year. The company has grown 1,250 hectares of in...

Since the start of the year, 35 Russian businesses received organic production certification, and are now included in the state register of ...

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky released a one-minute promotion video calling the country a land of opportunity in tourism, informati...

Ten days ago, the Russian ministry of agriculture reported the Kursk and Belgorod wheat harvest was nearing completion and would be finished...

Ukraine's Ministry of Economy, along with representatives from the grain market, today agreed on the maximum volume of grain exports for...

After a monumental weekend in Belarus, which saw unprecedented numbers of people gather in the centre of Minsk, calling for President Alexan...

As of Friday, Ukraine’s wheat harvest was reported as nearly finished (96%) at 25.5MMT from 6.3MHA with an average yield of 4.05MT/HA. This ...

USDA WASDE figures out this week upped Russian wheat 1.5MMT from 76.5MMT in July to 78MMT.   Many had been anticipating a larger increase, b...

Farmers in Moldova are protesting, they want government support after dry conditions led to widespread crop failure. Many will have bought i...

Ukraine’s 2020 wheat harvest is 87% completed, with 5.8MHA producing 23.1MMT at an average yield of 3.98MT/HA. This compares with 6.3MHA, 25...

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 wi...

Way back in history, when I first set up the blog AgronomyUkraine, I was living in Ukraine mainly doing agronomy. I no longer live in Ukrain...

Eight days on the road, three thousand kilometres, hundreds of crop observations, dozens of tweets on our tour twitter account, two repor...

Russia’s ministry of agriculture forecast a wheat harvest of 75-78MMT in 2019, 4% higher than last year and possibly as high as 80MMT if co...

Corteva Agriscience, the recently unveiled agriculture division of 2015 DowDuPont merger, announced the results of the all Ukrainian corn a...

Kazakhstan has risen to the fifth group of country risk rankings in OECD country risk rating. The Organization for Economic Cooperati...

Dmitry Rylko, Director-General of Russia's Institute for Agricultural Market Studies (IKAR), forecasts the 2018-19 Russian wheat ha...

We have been conducting regular crop tours across Russia and Ukraine since 2014 and we are now opening our latest tour for interested part...

Our next Russian-Ukraine crop tour is planned for 10th - 17th March when we will travel three thousand kilometres to assess the post-winter...

The 35-day-long US federal government shut down ended but it did mean no USDA numbers in January and eyes are now on the February figures ...

We have completed the first Black Sea Crop Tour of 2018 and I don't mind admitting it was a tough one. It started off well in south...

The first Black Sea Crop Tour of 2018 kicks off in two weeks time on 19 March. Before then however, I’m busy on a couple of other project...

Russia’s Deputy Minister of Agriculture spoke with representatives from Russia’s freight and rail transportation business this week and tol...

Russia’s Minister from Nizhny Novgorod region reports the condition of winter crops do not give him any cause for concern and they are good...

Russian wheat exports hit their highest weekly total since before Christmas because, they say, weather issues subsided. My information te...

This week the UK National Farmers Union (NFU) held their annual conference and elected Minette Batters as their new President, with Stuart...