In the grain marketing year that ends Tuesday, Ukraine will have earned $9.6 billion in grain sales, second only to the US

In the grain marketing year that ends Tuesday, Ukraine will have earned $9.6 billion in grain sales, second only to the US, Nikolai Gorbachev, head of the Ukrainian Grain Association, told reporters yesterday. “We already left behind such large countries as Russia, Argentina, Brazil,” he said. Comparable numbers are: Argentina – $9.3 billion; and Russia – $7.9 billion.