Ukraine: Barley crop forecast to be lowest in five years

Spring barley planting in Ukraine is drawing to an end, and the forecasts about its shortfall are coming true, UkrAgroConsult repoted on May 8.

As the analysts expected, the late start of planting and its tight time limits due to the abrupt temperature increase may prevent Ukrainian farmers from sowing as much spring barley as projected. Still, despite this year’s rapid pace of barley sowing (growers planted as large area for 4 weeks as for 7 weeks last year), it ended in a similarly rapid manner due to intensive warmth build-up and the need to sow late spring crops.

By the weekend of May 5, the plan for spring barley sowing in Ukraine was completed by a bit more than 90%. UkrAgroConsult analysts expect that some percent of area will not be seeded.

Thus, according to our forecast, Ukraine’s total barley acreage for the 2018 harvest will shrink. UkrAgroConsult forecasts Ukraine’s 2018 barley crop at the lowest in at least five years.

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