Deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, Deputy Chairman of the Agrarian Committee Ayrat Khayrulin, when discussing the draft law on the use of agricultural land as collateral for obtaining a mortgage loan, spoke about the immediate prospects for pricing land in Russia. 
Fuel prices during the spring field work should be fixed at today's level, so that suppliers will not be tempted to pick them up at the height of the sowing campaign. The Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation made such an offer to the Ministry of Energy of Russia. 
The production of oilseeds in Kazakhstan in 2017 was 2.420 million tons, which is 1.5 times more than in 2014 (1.547 million tons), Evgeny Karabanov, the founder of the Severnoye Zerno Group, said in an interview with APK-Inform. 
The head of the Ministry of Agriculture considers the state grain intervention as a 'harmful' mechanism, destabilizing the situation in the grain market. It is more efficient now, according to Alexander Tkachev, to subsidize its transportation for export. 
The new modern flame photometer PFA-378 was delivered the Laboratory of quality and safety of products of animal and vegetable origin, feed and environmental objects of the Omsk Reference Center of Rosselkhoznadzor (member of Omsky Biocluster). 
Russia can not yet ensure the substitution of imports in the dairy industry. The fall in imports in 2013 - 2016 was not compensated by the growth in milk production. 
According to global forecasts of FAO and USDA, world demand for pork in 2018 will reach 119.2 million tons. This is 2 million tons more than in 2017. 
The Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev approved the rules for granting subsidies from the federal budget to Russian Railways in 2017 and 2018 for reimbursement of expenses in connection with preferential transportation of grain.