Chile: Grain and Feed Annual

  |   Attaché Report (GAIN)   |   CI2025-0004
For marketing year (MY) 2025/26, Post estimates that the wheat area harvested will total 193,000 hectares (ha), representing a 1.0 percent decrease from MY 2024/25 due to high input costs and low prices. Wheat production is expected to reach 1.158 million metric tons (MMT). Wheat imports are projected to increase by 2.8 percent over MY 2024/25, reaching 1.30 million metric tons to cover domestic consumption needs. In MY 2025/26, Post forecasts corn production to reach 551,000 metric tons (MT), a slight decrease from MY 2024/25 due to unchanged area harvested and slightly lower yields. Corn imports are expected to increase by 2.0 percent, totaling 2.55 MMT to meet the feed demand from the pork and poultry industry.

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