Russia's Southern Federal District

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Russia Lacks Export Wheat in South, Pushing Up Prices, Ikar Says

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 ...

Putin raises national issue

The forum in Kislovodsk in the North Caucasus has brought together more than 300 delegates ? representatives of 13 Russian regions, which are part of the Southern Federal District and of the North Caucasian Federal District.

Cold, dryness, quality stoke Black Sea grain fears

The reading followed a warning from Russia's official weather watcher, the Hydrometeorological Service, that average daily temperatures in the country's Southern Federal District and the North Caucasus, major grain growing areas, looked like coming in ...

Weather hits grain exports from Ukraine

In parts of the Southern Federal District and the North Caucasus Federal District, Russia's southern breadbasket regions, average daily temperatures were forecast 10-15 degrees Celsius (5-14 Fahrenheit) below multi-year averages from January 26-31.