Ukraine’s corn harvest last year was up 50% y-o-y

Ukraine’s corn harvest last year was up 50% y-o-y, to a record, 35 million tons, reports the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Foreign Agricultural Service. The Service reports that 5% of the corn may have been left to rot in the fields because silos were full. On Wednesday, the State Statistics Service reported that the nation’s capacity for simultaneous storage of grain, beans and oilseeds grew last year by 7.3%, to 78.3 million tons. Of this amount, farms owned 58%.