Russian Grain Markets: 15-19 October 2012 Harvesting Update As of 19 October, the Russian farmers harvested 71.8 MMT of grains and grain legumes:

39.5 MMT of wheat on 21.2 million hectares (99 percent of the areas under the crop), with an average yield of 1.86 MT/hectare (versus 57.9 MMT, 2.39 MT/hectare as of the same date last year). 14.5 MMT of barley on 7.6 million hectares (98 percent of the areas under the crop), with an average yield of 1.91 MT/hectare (versus 17.3 MMT, 2.29 MT/hectare). 5.4 MMT of corn on 1.3 million hectares (67 percent of the areas under the crop), with an average yield of 4.08 MT/hectare (versus 3.3 MMT, 4.39 MT/hectare). 6.7 MMT of sunflower seed 983,300 MT of rapeseed 1 MMT of soybeans

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