South Africa: Grain and Feed Update

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Due to the promising start the summer rainfall season and the current favorable weather conditions, there is increased optimism that South Africa will produce a second consecutive bumper corn crop in the 2020/21 MY. As a result, post increased its estimate for South Africa’s 2020/21 MY total corn crop (subsistence and commercial corn) by 14 percent to 16 million tons. This would enable South Africa to export about 3.0 million tons of corn in the 2020/21 MY. In the current marketing year (2019/20 MY), after producing the second largest crop in history, South Africa is heading to 2.5 million tons of corn exports.

South Africa: Grain and Feed Update

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