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Uruguayan beef exports for 2016 are forecast at 395,000 tons carcass weight equivalent (cwe), the highest in the past ten years.

Export prices for nearly all grades of rice, except fragrant rice, declined further from the previous week’s level due to continued weakening of Thai baht.

Russian beef production is forecast to decline 4 percent as cattle inventories are expected to decrease 1.5 percent to 18.41 million head in 2016.

Despite a sharp fall in Ukraine’s GDP in 2015, broiler meat poultry production remained stable and is projected to increase 2 percent to 995,000 metric tons (MT) in 2016.

The low price of soybeans is expected to push China’s soybean imports to a record 76 million tons in MY14/15, up from the 70.4 million tons in the previous year.

Japan will post new records for broiler meat production, consumption, and importation in 2015 as poultry sales outpace relatively higher priced pork and beef in both the retail and food service...

The MY 2015/16 production estimate is 29 million 480 lb. bales. Planted area reached 11.26 million hectares and is expected to climb higher.

Broiler meat production in Saudi Arabia is expected to reach 700,000 MT in 2015, about 8 percent higher than production in 2014.

In Marketing Year (MY) 2016, chicken production is forecast to increase slightly by two percent to 848,000 MT from 832,000 MT in MY 2015, due to higher parent stock (PS) and broiler inventories....

In 2016, ending inventories and calf production are expected to increase by 4 percent while beef and veal production is projected to increase by 10 percent.

Japanese beef production is projected to continue its downward trend through 2016, as Japanese pork production rebounds in 2015 from the worst impacts of Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea virus (PEDv).

Paraguayan beef exports in 2016 are forecast 435,000 tons carcass weight equivalent (cwe). This record is expected as a result of increased beef output and a steady foreign demand.