a combine harvests wheat in a field near the village of suvorovskaya in stavropol region russia july 17 2021 reuterseduard korniyenko july 11 reuters  russian wheat export prices fell last week under pressure from the new crop a weaker rouble and lower export tax analysts said on monday sanctionshit russia reduced its grain export taxes sharply on july 1 to support shipments in the julyjune marketing season prices for the new wheat crop with 125 protein content and for supply from black sea ports fell by 17 to 358 a tonne free on board fob at the end of last week the ikar agriculture consultancy said sovecon another consultancy said wheat prices for supply in july and august were at 365370 a tonne vs 375385 a week ago russia exported 340000 tonnes of grain last week compared with 250000 tonnes a week earlier sovecon said citing data from ports wheat prices in the domestic market rose on higher demand from exporters sovecon said some foreign traders started to conduct additional checks of farmers probably to avoid buying any grain from ukraine it added ukraine has accused russia of stealing grain from territories that russias army has seized since feb 24 moscow denies this read more other russian data provided by sovecon and ikar the harvesting data provided by sovecon as of july 7 