With favorable weather conditions reported for Russia's spring and winter crop development, Rusagrotrans, the nation's largest grain transportation provider, raised its forecast for the 2015 grain harvest from 97-98 to 99-100 MMT. Russian Grain Markets Planting Update Spring crops were planted on 51.2 million hectares (98.7 percent of the target) as of 15 June 2015, including grain crops on 30.8 million hectares (99.3 percent of the target). Spring wheat was planted on 13.3 million hectares (101.1 percent of the target), spring barley on 8.2 million hectares (100.6 percent of the target) and corn on 2.7 million hectares (95.6 percent of the target). Sunflowers were planted on 6.8 million hectares (102.9 percent of the target), spring ra...

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