Russia's annual report covering food safety has noted that measures taken by the government to stabilize the situation in agriculture will result in general growth of agricultural production despite the external fiscal factors influencing the country's domestic economy and causing RUB fluctuations.Due to the May holidays, market information was limited and there was little change. Russian Grain Markets Planting Updates As of 4 May 2014, spring grain crops were planted on 9.5 million hectares (29.7 percent of the target). This included 1.3 million hectares of spring wheat (10.1 percent), 4.6 million hectares of spring barley (52.8 percent) and 1.5 million hectares of spring corn (57.7 percent).Sunflower seed was planted on 2.3 million hec...
What You Need to Know Today: Chinese purchases of U.S. soybeans continued to accelerate, with USDA reporting another 558 KMT sold to China and 236 KMT to unknown destinations. Combined with sales announced Wednesday and Thursday, the latest purchases bring the three-day total to approximately...
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