Russia: Russia harvests 54.6% of intended grain area by August 28

UkrAgroConsult reports that by August 28, 2015, Russia harvested 69.3 mln tonnes (bunker weight) of grain (excluding corn) from an area of 25.7 mln ha representing 54.6% of the intended area at an average yield of 2.7 t/ha.

This is still behind last year’s pace of 73.8 mln tonnes harvested from 25.7 mln ha at a yield of 2.87 t/ha, the agency reports.

The wheat harvest stood at 47.7 (previous year 47.2) mln tonnes from an area of 15.6 (14.2) mln ha with yields averaging 3.06 (3.32) t/ha and the barley harvest reached 13.9 (16.7) mln tonnes from a harvested area of 5.8 (6.6) mln ha with yields averaging 2.39 (2.54) t/ha.

02 September, 2015