Russian Wheat-Sowing Outlook Is ‘Doom and Gloom,’ Martell Says
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Russian winter-wheat planting faces “doom and gloom” after rainfall in main growing areas in the country’s southwest was too light to relieve a drought, agricultural weather forecaster Martell Crop Projections said.
Soils in the Volga Federal District’s Saratov and Samara regions remain too dry for wheat planting to start and require “drenching rains,” Martell said in a report on its website dated yesterday. A cold front last week brought “little relief” in the area or in the Volgograd and Krasnodar regions of the Southern Federal District, it said.