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Russian export prices for wheat down slightly after month of growth

29 сентября 2020 года

* Weather remains dry in most of winter wheat sowing regions
* Rains needed badly in coming weeks
* Rally in domestic wheat prices continues

MOSCOW, Sept 28 (Reuters) - Russian wheat export prices fell slightly last week, putting the breaks on one month of growth, due to lower Chicago wheat prices and rouble currency trading near the six-month low against the dollar, analysts said on Monday.

Russian wheat with 12.5% protein loading from Black Sea ports and for supply in October was at $233 a tonne free on board (FOB) at the end of last week, down $2 from the previous week, agriculture consultancy IKAR said in a note.

Analysts at Refinitiv pegged wheat at $235 a tonne, down $0.5. Sovecon, another Moscow consultancy, said that barley rose $2 to $194 a tonne.

However, domestic rouble prices for wheat continued to rally on strong demand from exporters and livestock farms, Sovecon said.

Large Wheat Crop

Russia's 2020 wheat crop is large, but a lot of farmers are not in a rush to sell it as they have enough cash for the winter wheat sowing campaign and are prepared to store their crop.

According to Sovecon, weaker rouble and rising domestic prices increase the risk of the state intervention in some form.

Russia's agriculture ministry previously said that it would decide in October on whether to impose a grain export quota in January-June 2021.

Weather remains dry in most of Russia's winter wheat sowing regions, and rains are needed badly in the coming weeks.

Other Russian data provided by Sovecon and IKAR:

Product: Price at the end Change from week of last week: earlier

- Domestic 3rd 14,100 rbls/t +600 rbls class wheat, ($179) European part of Russia, excludes delivery (Sovecon)
- Sunflower seeds 30,450 rbls/t +1,675 rbls (Sovecon)
- Domestic 71,000 rbls/t n/a sunflower oil (Sovecon)
- export $900/t -$75 sunflower oil (Sovecon)
- Soybeans 31,400 rbls/t +600 rbls (Sovecon)
- white sugar, $496/t -$9 Russia's south (IKAR)

($1 = 78.8800 roubles)

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