Russian Grain Markets: 22-26 October 2012 Harvesting Update As of 26 October, Russian farmers have harvested 72.2 MMT of grains and grain legumes:
39.6 MMT of wheat on 21.4 million hectares (99 percent of the areas under the crop), with an average yield of 1.86 MMT/hectare (versus 58.9 MMT as of the same date last year). 14.5 MMT of barley on 7.6 million hectares (98 percent of the areas under the crop), with an average yield of 1.91 MT/hectare (versus 17.3 MMT, 2.29 MT/hectare). 5.6 MMT of corn on 1.4 million hectares (70 percent of the areas under the crop), with an average yield of 4.09 MT/hectare. 6.9 MMT of sunflower seed. 1 MMT of rapeseed. 1.2 MMT of soybeans.
Grain Market Interventions The intervention fund put up...
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