Too Wet, Too Dry: Wheat Season Gets Off to a Mixed Start
- Soggy soils hamper winter-wheat planting in U.K., France
- Contrasts with eastern Europe, where conditions are too dry
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While British grain growers hope for a dry spell to speed up planting in rain-saturated fields, newly-sown farms on the other end of the continent in Ukraine are in need of a good soak before winter.
The winter-grain planting period is drawing to a close across the Northern Hemisphere, and young crops across some of the world’s top exporters face a mixed bag of conditions. Excess rain is slowing planting in parts of western Europe, while the east has seen too little -- as have the U.S. Plains. Powerhouse Russia, meanwhile, got off to a good start.