Highlights Winter wheat crop area cut 9% in Russia Platts Analytics raises spring wheat crop by 2.1 mil mt Export prices rise more than 14% on month S&P Global Platts Analytics has cut its estimate for Russia’s wheat output in marketing year 2021-22 (July-June) to 80.2 million mt, against 83.8 million mt pegged earlier, due to a decline in the winter crop area. Receive daily email alerts, subscriber notes & personalize your experience. Register Now Russia is the world’s largest exporter of wheat and a major producer of the staple food grain. In the week to July 30, the Russian State Statistical Services reduced the country’s winter wheat area by 7.7% to 15.6 million hectares. Platts Analytics has cut its estimate for Russian winter wheat production by 9% to 57.6 million mt. However, it has increased its estimate for the country’s spring wheat production to 22.6 million mt, up […]