South Africa: Grain and Feed Update

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South Africa should return as a net exporter of corn in the 2016/17 MY wtih about one million tons on higher production. For the 2015/16 MY, post estimates that South Africa will have to import about 3.5 million tons of corn, as drought reduced normal corn production by more than 40 percent. In the 2014/15 MY, South Africa imported almost 2.0 million tons of corn to augment local production.

 South Africa: Grain and Feed Update

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