Russia: Barley exports went down 4.4 times year-on-year in September 06
Russian barley exports totalled 38,400 tonnes in September 2006, down four times from August and 4.4 times from September 2005, AgriMarket.Info released October 18. The largest buyers of Russian barley were Israel (14,300 tonnes), Italy (9,400 tonnes) and Georgia (3,400 tonnes).
The average export price for barley totalled US$/t 107 in September. Barley export of three summer months was at the level of 291,500 t against 639,500 t at the beginning of 2005/06 MY. At the same time in September Russia imported 10,000 t of barley.