Russian Grain Markets: 13-18 December 2012 Grain Market Interventions The intervention fund put up 64,990 MT of grains for exchange trading on 18 December 2012.As of 1 December 2012, total carryover stocks of grain in producing, storing and processing enterprises amounted to 29.7 MMT, down 12.6 MMT from the amount on the same date last year. Geographically:
3rd grade and 4th grade soft milling wheat prices continued to increase in the South and Siberia (+$1.5-4/MT), Black Soil (+$7/MT), Central (+$5-5.5/MT), and Ural and Volga Valley (+$10-11/MT). 5th grade feed wheat prices increased +$11/MT in Volga Valley, +$9/MT in Ural, +$4-5/MT in other regions and only +$3/MT in Siberia. Feed barley prices increased in the Central and South...
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