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Post forecasts marketing year (MY) 2024/25 production at 0.91 million 480-lb bales, basically flat compared to MY 2023/24 due to high input costs, drought conditions, power outages, and lack of access to new genetically engineered seed varieties.

In 2023, Mexico imported $51 billion of food ingredient products, of which 63 percent were sourced from the United States. Mexico’s food processing industry is the second largest in Latin America, behind Brazil, making Mexico a top destination for U.S. food ingredients.

Lower feed prices are expected to boost producer profits in 2024, thereby increasing domestic beef and pork production. Beef imports are forecast to decrease, and pork imports are expected to remain nearly flat.

The outlook for Mexican grain production in marketing year (MY) 2024/2025 is higher year-on-year for corn, wheat, rice, and sorghum based on farmer planting decisions on more average weather conditions and a gradual recovery from exceptional drought conditions.

In an effort to support the development and adoption of science-based rulemaking FAS Mexico developed ten educational videos on biotechnology and genetically engineered organisms in Spanish.

Two Mexican companies filed a request in April 2015 to initiate an anti-dumping investigation on imported U.S. fructose.

On September 7, 2015, SAE published an announcement in the Diario Oficial (Federal Register) containing the public tender for the last five state-owned sugar mills.

Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) in the United States is a concern for the sector. Appropriate measures to cope with AI outbreaks would allow a continued two percent growth during 2016.

Cattle inventories continue declining but financial programs to repopulate the domestic herd and improved genetics would contribute for a future stabilization.

A new rail border crossing was inaugurated Aug.25 at the Brownsville – Matamoros Port of Entry.