date:Sep 11, 2012
d 6% in July after three consecutive months of declines.
However, while the overall index has stabilised, the latest forecast also confirmed a tightening of the global supply of key cereal crops, with poor weather having impacted harvests in several important growing regions. In reference to US maize and Russian wheat in particular, the organisation said that prices eased toward the end of the month, following heavy rains in those areas of the US hardest hit by drought and the announcement that