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The U.S. Census Bureau's export data tracks U.S. food and agricultural trade shipped directly to Romania. However, it does not measure the substantial levels of the U.S. agricultural trade to Romania routed through Western European ports of entry.

Brazil’s Marketing Year (MY) 2021/22 sugarcane crop is estimated at 635 million metric tons (mmt), a decrease of three percent compared to the final estimate for MY 2020/21 (657 mmt).

With about two-thirds of the Brazilian population on social media, Brazil is home to over 140 million social media users.

The number of active African swine fever (ASF) outbreaks in Romania continues to trend downward

Post forecasts that Brazilian producers will expand soybean planted area to reach 40 million hectares (ha) in 2021/22 season, up from the estimated 38.5 mn ha planted in the 2020/21 season.

Post maintains its corn production forecast for MY 2020/21 (March 2021–February 2022) at 105 million metric tons (MMT), based on the smaller-than-expected first crop of corn paired with widespread delayed planting of second-crop “safrinha” corn.

Brazil continues to present opportunities for U.S. exporters of ingredients, with its food processing industry market estimated in 2020 at $152 billion, an increase of 12.7 percent compared to the previous year.

For 2021/22, Post forecasts cotton planted area to rebound 11 percent compared to the current season, to 1.6 million hectares.