Russian Grain Markets: 28 May – 4 June 2013 Planting Updates As of 3 June, spring grain crops were planted on 27.4 million hectares, which is 90.6 percent of the target and 1.6 million hectares less than plantings as of the same period last year. Specifically, this includes including 11.1 million hectares of wheat, 7.8 million hectares of barley and 2.3 million hectares of corn. Grain Market Interventions The intervention fund sold 44,955 MT of grains for exchange commodity trading on 4 June 2013 and sold 30,645 MT.Since the beginning of the public grain interventions in 2012, the State Intervention Fund has sold 3.388 MMT of grain for total amount of RUR 27.996 billion. Market Trends: 27-31 May 2013 During the week in review, Russi...

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