The US Department of Agriculture immediately increased the forecast for wheat harvest in Russia by 5 million tons.

The wheat export estimate remains unchanged at 50 million tons. In previous months it constantly increased, last month - by 1 million tons.

The forecast for wheat exports by its closest competitor - the European Union - also remained at the same level - 37.5 million tons.

The forecast for feed grain production in Russia has been raised to 42.2 million tons from 39.8 million tons. It didn't change in October. The export estimate for these crops was raised to 11.31 million tons from 10.21 million tons a month earlier.

Corn harvest and export forecasts, which have remained unchanged for several months, have also been raised. Harvest estimates rose to 16 million tons from 14.6 million tons, exports to 5.3 million tons from 4.2 million tons.

The US Department of Agriculture does not take into account data on Crimea and new territories in its forecasts.

The global wheat harvest this agricultural year is estimated at 781.98 million tons (783.43 million tons according to the October forecast), feed grain - 1 billion 499.31 million tons (1 billion 494.55 million tons), corn - 1 billion 220, 79 million tons (1 billion 214.47 million tons).