Ukrainian industry experts predict that this season wheat crop in Ukraine will reach 27.5 million tons, and the average yield will be 4.28 tons / ha.

According to market operators, the average protein content in wheat in the 2019 crop is 12.5-12.7%. We can say that in Ukraine there is already a certain shortage of feed wheat, which would have to go for export.

In this situation, domestic farmers will restrain sales, which will support prices, says Kupchenko.

With the advancement of harvesting in the northern part of Ukraine, where non-uniform weather conditions with frequent rains were observed during the growing season, there may be difficulties with the phytosanitary condition of some volumes of harvested grain.

Due to weather conditions, wheat from the northern regions may have a heterogeneous quality, the specialist explains. According to experts, as a result of the harvest, its structure this year may be as follows: 65% of food and 35% of feed grain.

According to the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food, according to data as of July 29, 2019, 29.7 million tons of grain of the new crop were threshed in Ukraine.