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Biotech regulation has been virtually non-existent in the Caribbean.

Minister of Agriculture Kátia Abreu discussed expanding beef, poultry, dairy, fruit, and wheat trade with Russia, Myanmar, Japan, South Africa, and Argentina.

Argentine wheat production for 2015/16 is forecast down at 10.2 million tons (mmt), 1.3 mmt lower than USDA.

Argentine bioethanol production and consumption for 2016 are forecast up at a record 900 million liters.

Production of lemons and oranges in MY 2014/2015 is forecast to increase (although it will still be down from normal levels), as a result of good weather conditions...

Post forecasts Argentine milk output for calendar year (CY) 2016 to reach 11.62 million tons, a one percent decrease from USDA’s CY2015 estimates.

For Calendar Year (CY) 2015, Post revised fresh apple production downward to 640,000 MT and fresh pear production is forecast to go down to 610,000 MT.

U.S. agricultural exports to South America nearly doubled in the past four years, reaching a record of more than $8 billion in calendar year 2014.

Argentine sugar production for 2015/16 is projected up at 2.25 million metric tons.

Post forecasts Calendar Year (CY) 2016 grape production at 2.67 million metric tons (MMT) under normal weather conditions and maintaining the current good sanitary conditions of the vineyards.

Argentine wheat production for crop 2015/16 is forecast down at 12 million tons due to a projected smaller planted area.

Post forecasts 2015/16 soybean area at 20.3 million hectares, marginally lower than Post’s 2014/15 area estimate, though up 2.5 percent from USDA 2014/15 estimates.