Russian Grain Markets: 3-12 December 2012 Grain Market Interventions The intervention fund put up 64,880 MT of grains for exchange trading on 11 December 2012.The next day, 12 December 2012, 64,969 MT of grains were released for trading. Export Update As of 10 December, Russia has exported 12.1 MMT of grains since 1 July 2012. During the first five months of the 2012/13 marketing year (July-November), the country's general grain exports amounted to 11.96 MMT, down 3.18 MMT from the same period last year. Specifically, Russia last month exported 1,638,000 MT of grain, including 978,000 MT of wheat, 340,000 MT of barley and 258,000 MT of corn. Geographically:
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