With a strong corn crop starting to come in, the national harvest of all grains this year could hit 76 million tons, up 8% over last year’s record,

With a strong corn crop starting to come in, the national harvest of all grains this year could hit 76 million tons, up 8% over last year’s record, Alfa-Bank Ukraine reports in its reading of the USDA’s latest World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates. Noting that farmers harvested a record 28 million tons of wheat this summer, Alfa research head Oleksiy Blinov writes: “It is clear that the country is about to set a new grain harvest record, but how high this record would depend on corn harvest, which is still in the fields waiting to be harvested in autumn.