Russian Grain Markets: 8-15 January 2013 Grain Market Interventions The intervention fund put up 64,978 MT of grains for exchange trading on 15 January 2013.As of 15 January, there have been 281 participants during the course of the public commodity interventions. Since the beginning of these interventions in 2012, the public intervention fund has sold 1.259 MMT of grain on the stock exchange for a general sum of 10.314 billion Russian rubles. Harvest Results According to the Russian Ministry of Agriculture, the country's total production volume of grains and leguminous crops in 2012 totaled 70.676 MMT in clean weight, down 25 percent from the previous year. Grain crops formed 68.502 MMT of the total volume, specifically: winter and s...
What You Need to Know Today: U.S. weather is getting more attention this week as conditions vary greatly across the western, central, and eastern corn belts, with the different regions battling dryness and too much rain simultaneously. The ProFarmer Crop Tour began today in Indiana and Nebrask...
Key Takeaways: Argentina is on pace for a record corn crop and record exports in the current marketing year, with abundant supplies likely to keep the country highly competitive in global export markets. Argentina’s record exportable surplus is allowing it to offer highly competitive pri...
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