Russian Grain Markets: 5 June - 11 June 2013 Planting Updates As of 6 June, spring grain crops were planted on 30.2 million hectares. This is 99.8 percent of the target and 383,800 million hectares less than plantings as of the same period last year. Grain Market Interventions The intervention fund sold 44,972 MT of grains for exchange commodity trading on 5 June 2013 and sold 36,467 MT. Another 89,899 MT of grains were put up for trading on 10 June, of which 77,479 MT were sold.Since the beginning of the public grain interventions in 2012, the State Intervention Fund has sold 3.502 MMT of grain for total amount of RUR 28.882 billion.Russian Deputy Ag Minister Ilya Shestakov announced that the government may delay the 2013 state gra...
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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