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Robust soybean planting in Cordoba province and smooth planting in the rest of the country are trending national production area towards the 2014/15 soybean forecast of 21 million hectares.

From May through September 2014, FAS Brasilia staff visited six of Brazil’s nine states which make up ‘’Amazonia Legal," a political-administrative region situated in the northern half of Brazil.

Post forecasts 2014/15 area planted to cotton at one million hectares with cotton production reaching 6.9 million bales (1.5 million metric tons).

Based on the officially reported data on the progress of the Russian grain harvest, FAS/Moscow increased its forecast of Russia’s total grain crop in MY 2014/15 by 1 million metric tons to 102 MMT.

Post reduced its 2014/15 production forecast to 92 mmt, still a record, based on a lower national yield.

The Canadian renewable fuels industry is coming close to reaching its medium term domestic production capacity.

Greece’s MY 2014/15 (July/June) apple production is forecast to decrease by 2 percent, because of the low temperatures occurred during fruit setting and maturity phases.

With more than 2MMT, Italy provides around 20 percent of the EU-28 apple production.

Dr. Alberto Maurer appointed as the new Director of the National Institute for Agricultural Investigation (INIA).

In June 2014, FAS Bucharest and AgroBiotechRom Association, the voice of the biotech industry in Romania, organized another successful biotech outreach activity.

A tender for 800 head of breeding bulls (500 head of Simmental, 100 head of Charolais, 100 head of Limousin, 50 head of Brown Swiss, 50 head of Montbeliard breed) will be held on December 15, 2014.

The Russian Ministry of Agriculture drafted a government resolution approving 500 million rubles ($11 million) of subsidies to pay for rail transportation to move 100,000 MT frozen herring.