Russian supplies of milling wheat available for export from the Southern Federal District declined, pushing up prices, the Institute for Agricultural Market Studies said. “We see a stormy price increase because grain resources are becoming limited in the south,” Oleg Sukhanov, the institute’s grain analyst, said today by phone from [...]

Analysts Consider That Actual Port Capacity Will Not Be A Problem This Year, As The Real Bottleneck Is In Getting Grain To The Ports As A Result Of  Poor Management Of Railway Logistics, High Cost Of Transportation From Siberian Regions, And Competition With Grain From Kazakhstan (For Markets, For Russian Grain Cars, Etc.). [...]

According to the USDA’s latest WASDE report, U.S. feed grain ending stocks for 2011/12 are projected lower this month as increases in corn and oats imports are more than offset by higher expected corn exports. Projected corn and oats imports are raised 5 and 10 million bushels, respectively, based on [...]