As of October 12, 2020, cereals and legumes have been threshed from an area of 44.6 million hectares — 93% of the total sown area.
128.3 million tons of grain were threshed with an average yield of 28.7 centners per hectare.
Many regions are breaking records.
In the Kursk region 90% of agricultural land has been harvested. 5.2 million tons of grain were threshed.
The very high yield — 55 centners per hectare — makes it possible to count on the final figures of 6 million tons, which is 600 thousand tons more than last year.
The farmers of the Kemerovo Region completed the harvesting of grain, fully meeting the region’s demand for grain.
Almost 1.5 million tons of grain were threshed, which is 17% higher than the results of 2019.
At the same time, harvesting began 2 weeks earlier, and the pace of harvesting was 2.5 times higher than in the previous season.
Krasnoyarsk Krai for the first time exceeded the yield in Russia: agricultural producers harvested 32.2 centners per hectare, compared with an average of 28.7 centners per hectare.
And this is still a preliminary result: 89% of fields have been removed.
Saratov agrarians harvested 5 million tons of grain.
In some areas, the yield reached 38.6 centners per hectare.
Tambov region for 9 months of this year exceeded the export plan by 90%.
Agricultural products were sold for $ 235 million. Grain crops accounted for almost half of the exports.
Volgograd agrarians exceeded the grain harvest plan by 1 million tons, having threshed 5 million tons of grain.
In the Belgorod Region the harvest of grains and legumes amounted to 3.7 million tons, which is higher than last year.
At the same time, the quality of wheat in the region is at an unprecedented high level: more than 61% of grain has a gluten level of 18% to 23% and higher, which refers it to the food class.
Oryol Region has almost completed the harvesting of winter crops, harvesting of spring crops is coming to an end.
Agrarians exceeded last year’s figures by 12.3%.
Orenburg Region exceeded 3.7 million tonnes of grain, of which 2 million tonnes are winter crops.
But the rise in prices for bakery products in the region continues.
Prices are growing not only in the Orenburg region: by the end of last week, prices on the Russian domestic market reached their maximum values.
For a ton of third-class wheat, they gave 14,650 rubles without VAT (+ 325 rubles). Wheat of the fourth class has risen in price by 300 rubles to 14 625 rubles per ton.
Wheat has never been so expensive on the domestic market.
The previous maximum of 14,500 rubles per ton was observed in April this year at the height of quarantine.
Domestic prices reacted to the devaluation of the ruble and an increase in purchase prices in ports, and this trend is likely to continue.
