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Due to relatively high stock levels that are suppressing local corn prices, Post estimates that South Africa’s commercial corn producers will cut area by 10 percent to 2.1 million hectares....

South Africa is the largest user of the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) for agricultural exports to the United States in the Southern African region.

Post estimates that the South African raw sugar production will increase by 8 percent to 2.2 Million Metric Tons (MMT) in the 2018/19 Marketing Year (MY), due to an increase in sugar cane....

On September 28, 2018, the South African Revenue Service published notifications that a safeguard duty of 35.3 percent will be imposed on EU bone-in chicken.

South Africa has the largest foodservice market in Southern Africa, and a highly competitive hospitality industry.

Two-way agricultural trade between the United States and Southern Africa has grown significantly in the past decade, reaching a record $1.5 billion in 2017.

Post estimates that the South African raw sugar production will increase by 8 percent to 2.2 Million Metric Tons (MMT) in the 2018/19 Marketing Year (MY), due to an increase in sugar cane....

Post estimates that the decreasing trend in sorghum production in South Africa will continue in the 2018/19 MY.

The Agricultural Economic Fact Sheet for South Africa has been updated to include calendar years 2014, 2015 and 2016 (estimate). South Africa is battling one of the worst droughts ever recorded...

Post forecasts that the South African sugar cane crop will remain flat at 14.9 MMT in the 2016/17 MY as a result of the prevailing drought conditions.

Post forecasts that South Africa’s broiler meat imports will increase by eight percent in 2017 to 560,000 tons...