Russian Grain Markets: 13-19 March 2013 Grain Market Interventions The intervention fund put up 64,917 MT of grain for exchange trading on 13 March and 64,983 MT of grain on 19 March.Since the beginning of the public grain interventions in 2012, the State Intervention Fund has sold 2.369 MMT of grains for total amount of RUR 20.125 billion. Planting Season As of today, farmers in the Southern and Northern-Caucasian regions have planted spring crops on 317,500 hectares. The total target area is 50.9 million hectares, of which 30.3 million hectares will be planted to grain crops. Market Trends: 11-15 March 2013 During the week in review, grain decreased even faster than they did at the beginning of the month, especially in Ural. Geog...
Key Takeaways: Brazil confirmed a Newcastle disease outbreak at a commercial turkey farm in Santa Catarina on 18 October, raising concerns about potential disruptions to poultry exports despite the outbreak being confined to a single facility thus far. Mexico and Malaysia have imposed nationwi...
Yesterday, Alberta held a referendum on whether to begin the process toward independence from Canada. With more than one million votes counted as of early Tuesday morning, around 77 percent supported remaining in Canada, and 23 percent voted to start the process of separation, according to unof...
Mediterranean/Middle East/North Africa/Africa – MEA Region Pakistan’s smaller wheat farmers have been holding protests to complain about the lack of a support price for wheat and the potential expansion of GMO crop production. They also want the reinstatement of PASSCO, the governme...
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