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Post forecasts MY 2018/19 cotton acreage at 12.35 million hectares with a production forecast of 28.1 million 480 lb. bales.

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....

Growth in Canadian production of milk, cheese, butter and skim milk powder will continue to slow down in 2019, as supply and demand for butterfat stabilize.

The Government of Morocco has released its final wheat and barley production numbers for the 2018 crop, including 4.91 MMT of common wheat, 2.43 MMT of durum wheat and 2.91 MMT of barley.

Fluid milk imports into China will continue to grow in 2017 due to the diminished size of China’s dairy herd and continued low milk prices in the European Union (EU) and New Zealand.

MY2018/19 rice production is revised downward due to flood and drought damage, but remains higher than MY2017/18.

Since 2006, Hungary has been one of the strongest opponents of agricultural biotechnology in the European Union.

The Philippines continues to be a regional biotechnology leader.

Romania continues to be one of the European Union’s (EU) most progressive member states regarding agricultural biotechnology.

Peru maintains implementation of its 10-year moratorium on genetically engineered (GE) crops and a zero tolerance for GE events.

Malaysia currently does not have any domestic production of plant biotechnology.

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.