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Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Thursday abruptly extended the grain export ban by at least several months from the end of this year because farmers and wholesalers sent grain prices up by holding the latest harvest.

For the Dutch agricultural sector, 2009 was a bad year economically. Production increased slightly, but most primary agriculture market prices fell. The average agricultural income decreased to 5,500 euros per farm, its lowest point in twenty years.

The Food and Drug Administration has published in the Federal Register draft guidance on its regulatory policy relating to salmonella in animal feed.

International wheat prices have jumped by over 50 percent since June. This rapid increase in prices is prompting concerns about a repeat of the crisis of 2007/08. But after two consecutive years of record crops, world inventories have been replenished sufficiently to cover the current anticipated production shortfall.

Total cereal production in 2010 should be close to the average from the last five years. While the yield per hectare will be 5% above average, overall cultivated areas have decreased.

Several months of drought and heat in European have resulted in a decrease in the Russian grain production forecast to 62 million metric tons, 36 percent less than the last year crop.

Significantly reduced wheat and barley crop prospects, especially in the CIS and the EU, cut the 2010/11 global grains crop forecast by 8m. tons from July, to 1,745m., 2.4% below the previous year’s record.