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2015/16 soybean production area is unchanged at 20 million hectares with production forecast at 57 million tons.

2015/16 soybean production area is unchanged at 20 million hectares with production forecast at 57 million tons.

2016 Argentine broiler production is expected to reach a record 2.1 million metric tons (MMT) on modest growth in the export sector.

Argentine beef exports for 2016 are forecast up at 280,000 tons carcass weight equivalent (cwe), the highest level of the past 7 years.

Minister of Agriculture Kátia Abreu discussed expanding beef, poultry, dairy, fruit, and wheat trade with Russia, Myanmar, Japan, South Africa, and Argentina.

Argentine wheat production for 2015/16 is forecast down at 10.2 million tons (mmt), 1.3 mmt lower than USDA.

Argentine bioethanol production and consumption for 2016 are forecast up at a record 900 million liters.

Production of lemons and oranges in MY 2014/2015 is forecast to increase (although it will still be down from normal levels), as a result of good weather conditions...

Post forecasts Argentine milk output for calendar year (CY) 2016 to reach 11.62 million tons, a one percent decrease from USDA’s CY2015 estimates.

For Calendar Year (CY) 2015, Post revised fresh apple production downward to 640,000 MT and fresh pear production is forecast to go down to 610,000 MT.

U.S. agricultural exports to South America nearly doubled in the past four years, reaching a record of more than $8 billion in calendar year 2014.

Argentine sugar production for 2015/16 is projected up at 2.25 million metric tons.