Russian Milling Wheat Led Price Gains Last Week, SovEcon Says

Russian fourth-grade milling wheat rose 1.4 percent to 5,550 rubles ($197) a metric ton last week, leading price increases among grains, researcher SovEcon said.

Milling rye gained 0.8 percent to 6,300 rubles a ton and third-grade milling wheat climbed 0.4 percent to 5,675 rubles a ton, SovEcon said on its website. Feed wheat was unchanged and offered at 5,100 rubles a ton. Feed barley declined 0.4 percent to 6,150 rubles a ton and sunflowers fell 1.3 percent to 17,600 rubles a ton, the Moscow-based researcher said.

(Source: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-05-17/russian-milling-wheat-led-price-gains-last-week-sovecon-says.html)