According to Rusagrotrans, in August, Russia exported 4.84 млmillion tonnes оf grain, a new monthly record and exceeds the previous August 2014 record of 4.64 million tonnes.
In its September report, Strategie Grains raised its estimate for soft wheat in the EU in 2017 by 1.5 million tonnes to 142.5 million tonnes, by 4.7% more than the previous year.
In August, wheat export from Ukraine and Russia to countries in Asia reached a record level of 2.524 million tonnes at 2.079 million tonnes in August last year. The share of export to these countries reaches 40% of the total export.
According to a research of the Agroeconomic Institute in the Brazilian state Matto Grosso IMEA, in the current season corn crop in the state will reach 30.45 million tonnes, which is 59% more than the crop in 2015 – 2016.
