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Marketing year 2023/2024 wheat production is expected to drop sharply to around three-quarters of last year’s level as a result of the June drought and excessive rains in the fall of 2023 that affected Kazakhstan’s major grain producing Northern region.

MY2023/24 rice and corn production forecasts remain unchanged. MY2023/24 wheat imports are revised up to 3.0 MMT.

Argentine wheat production for marketing year (MY) 2023/2024 is estimated at 15.4 million tons, 400,000 tons higher than USDA official as yields were higher in the final phase than earlier expected. Corn production for MY 2023/2024 is projected at 57...

Wheat, corn, and barley production in MY 2023/24 are forecast at or near record levels due to favorable weather during much of the growing season. Consequently, import demand for these three grains is projected lower year-to-year. Similarly, rice...

While the United States had a $16 billion agricultural trade surplus with the rest of the world in 2015, it ran a record $12 billion trade deficit in farm and food products with the European Union.

South Africa should return to be a net exporter of corn in the 2016/17 MY of about 1.0 million tons on higher production.

According to the FAO, early prospects for Algeria’s 2016 winter wheat and coarse grains crops are favorable benefiting from recent widespread precipitation in eastern Algeria.

Colombian grain production could be impacted in 2016 as the period of drought from the El Niño weather phenomena transitions to rainier conditions of La Niña.

Post forecasts a decrease in corn production in Tanzania in the marketing year (MY) 2016/2017 due to unfavorable weather forecast by the Tanzania Meteorology Agency (TMA)...

Ethiopia is dealing with the worst drought to hit the country in decades.

Forecast MY2016/17 rice and corn production is expected to provide for larger exportable supplies in 2017.

Japan’s feed industry relies almost entirely on imported grains.