As 10-meter high mounds of sunflower meal smolder among the blackened ruins of one of Ukraine’s top agricultural terminals, farmers in this front-line region are scrambling to survive a harvest under Russian fire. They see Russia’s shelling of the Nika-Tera port facility in the southern city of Mykolaiv on June 4 as just the most dramatic example of a wider assault on a pillar of Ukraine’s economy – and the world’s. “Agriculture is one of the few business sectors that is working… Of course, they want to destroy it. They want to end this stream of income into the country,” farmer Volodymyr Onyschuk said near a pile of Russian shell casings on his 2,000-hectare wheat and sunflower holding near Mykolaiv. Crops will be vulnerable to fire caused by shelling, he said, and that could be “hell” for farmers when the harvest season […]