They also grow a fair amount of spring wheat, corn, a lot of sunflowers. The world edible oil market is the biggest mess- in no small part due to some ill conceived biofuels laws.
And I've been wondering about winter wheat getting topdressed.
Many grow wheat European style- with trams- so they probably have a bit longer window for N applications.
And of course the only place where Russia is enjoying limited military success is along the Black Sea coast- doesn't matter if you can't ship it.
