Russian Grain Markets: 6-12 March 2013 Grain Market Interventions The intervention fund put up 64,960 MT of grain for exchange trading on 6 March and 64,956 MT of grain on 12 March.Since the beginning of the public grain interventions in 2012, the State Intervention Fund has sold 2.251 MMT of grains for total amount of RUR 19.156 billion. Planting Season Farmers in the Southern and Northern-Caucasian regions have begun the planting season. As of 12 March, spring crops were planted on 175,400 hectares. The total target area is 50.9 million hectares, of which 30.3 million hectares will be planted to grain crops. Market Trends: 4-7 March 2013 During the week in review, grain prices continued to decrease. While milling wheat and corn pr...