Russian Grain Markets: 2-8 October 2013 Harvesting Updates: As of 8 October, grain and leguminous crops were harvested on 36.9 million hectares, 83.8 percent of the planted area. The volume of grain produced was 81.8 MMT (11.9 MMT more than as of the same date in 2012) with the average yield of 2.22 MT/hectare (1.86 MT/hectare in 2012). Specifically, wheat was harvested on 21 million hectares, 87.7 percent of the target (50.2 MMT produced, the average yield of 2.38 MT/hectare), barley was harvested on 7.5 million hectares, 87.9 percent of the target (15.2 MMT produced, the average yield of 2.04 MT/hectare), corn was harvested on 582,800 hectares, 24 percent of the target (3 MMT produced, the average yield 5.08 MT/hectare). Sunflower s...

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