Russian Grain Markets: 29 July–2 August 2024 Russian Vice Premier Patroushev announced that Russia is 40 percent done with harvesting small grains. The harvesting pace is ahead of last year’s pace; however, production is only 64 MMT which is lower than last year’s crop. The grain production forecast of the Russian government remains at 132 MMT. Interestingly, Russian analysts forecast Russian grain production with occupied territories of Ukraine at 132 MMT where Russian grains will only be 128 MMT leaving around 4 MMT to be harvested on occupied territories. Crimea has been included in Russian statistics since its illegal annexation in 2014 so we are talking about partially occupied Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, and Kh...