This might seem like an odd aside, but how does this affect the local agriculture and general environment? Not really sure what Ukraine produces but it seems like a shitshow to me if Russia takes over after fucking the local sectors that keep people fed.
Generally catastrophic. Not only for the farmers but for those who rely on the markets. The commodities market is absolutely crazy at the moment and the threat of sanctions, blockades, and poor growing seasons has everyone guessing. Of concern is the Middle East, and Africa will starve without Ukrainian and Russian wheat. China has been gobbling up every kernel of grain it can get on the market and has something like a two year stockpile of grains of all varieties. And India is a big importer. Oh, and that's not counting Europe which also can't feed itself.
There are plenty of farming news aggregator sites that can keep you up to date if you are inclined.
I use this one.
Being in this general region I prefer the Capital Press which is handy.
re winter, so everything is in the ground dormant until growing season. No idea if that's true, but it does explain the no-care attitude about grain everybody has right now. If that's true, I gue
(Not sure if the KF quote system is working right but here goes)
Much of the "winter" crops are already in the ground. Winter wheat being the major one which you seed in the fall and which remain mostly dormant throughout the winter. Much like the grass in your lawn, it will then begin growing again in the spring and summer before it is finally harvested in the late summer/early fall. Generally Late July, August, September.
There are other crops that you plant in the fall that Ukraine/Russia and here in the US which are major players on the commodities market. Canola being one. There is winter Canola. Winter peas. Etc.
However, confusing matters is that there are Spring varieties of wheat. Spring varieties of canola. Sunflowers which are very popular in Ukraine. Peas, lentils, etc. And corn. These are planted when the ground is warm enough and firm enough and harvested again in the late summer or fall.
It depends on the crop rotation that farmers opt for. Some prefer the one year on, one year off crop rotation for their fields. These are generally the winter wheat farmers. However, more modern techniques opt for a triple rotation planting Wheat, Sunflowers/Peas/etc, before leaving the field fallow for a season.
Think of the medieval crop rotation most of us read in high school history books. It's still mostly a thing.
sians. The worst issue is that despite Ukrainian efforts, it's likely that the sowing season (which should also happen around that time, if I remember correctly) will fail and with Russia's temporary ban on export, this is a quarter of the world's wheat exports. Expect ME to explode again in a spe
This guy is "Ukrainian" and thinks harvest season is in April or May? What is the world coming to when Slavs can't even get their planting seasons right.
Touch wheat, nigga.
Kievan Rus adopted Orthodoxy in like 700 AD.
Officially more like the 10th Century with St. Olga of Kiev converting in order to secure alliances with the Byzantines. No doubt there were large numbers of converts among the lower classes first.
In 988 or thereabouts Vladimir the Great, who was a hard, pipe hitting reactionary pagan up until that point, made the conversion to Orthodoxy official. Again, for diplomatic reasons but perhaps also because he felt a true calling.
I could find better sources but Wikipedia is good enough for this lot.
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