Miller Magazine Issue: 117 September 2019

16 MILLER / SEPTEMBER 2019 Arina Korchmaryova Vice President Baltic, Black and Caspian Seas Business Group Cotecna Inspection Wheat Quality Update: Ukraine Guest Author This year Ukraine has more quantity wheat of milling quality and with proper storage conditions and wise preparation of export parcels; it can compete well with wheat of other origins. As to feed wheat, the situation could be characterized in the same way as for milling wheat, with a bit lower test weight results and quite high percentage of bug-ridden grains, that probably caused the change of this wheat category from “Milling” to “Feed”, despite quite high protein content. Currently, there are many deliberations regarding wheat quality in Ukraine. In general, quality of wheat of 2019 in Ukraine is better than in previous years. As per various analytical opinions, percentage of milling vs feed wheat is expected to be about 10% higher than in 2018. For the assessment of phytosanitary condition of wheat, we conducted phytosanitary monitoring of fields of winter wheat in 16 regions of Ukraine, rep- resenting the agro-climatic zones of the northern, southern, eastern and western parts of the country before the harvest. Visual examination of fields and