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Posted by Nogger - a legend in his own mind at 11:42 | Categorized as

14/09/11 -- The grain harvest in Ukraine currently stands at 35.7 MMT off 75% of the planted area, say the Ministry there.

Effectively there's just the corn crop left to bring in to finalise grain harvesting. The wheat crop stands at 23.2 MMT and the barley harvest at 9.5 MMT. Both are higher than Monday's upwardly revised USDA forecasts, by 1.2 MMT and 0.5 MMT respectively.

The corn harvest is only just past the half million tonne mark, with final output now expected to be 18 MMT according to the USDA, an increase of more than 50% on last season.

My chum and man on the ground over there however, Mike Lee, is however "a little more reserved" with his optimism for a bumper corn crop. (See here).