Russian Harvest Latest

Russia has so far harvested 7.6 million hectares of grains, or 16% of the planted area, producing 23.2 MMT of grains according to APK-Inform.

That's 2.2 million hectares up on the area harvested this time in 2008.

Average yields to date are 3.05 MT/hectare, down 6.9% on the same time last year.

Harvesting of winter rapeseed is about halfway through, they say, of a total planted area of 130,000 hectares.