Category: Food & Agriculture

Mexico repeals regulation that prevented the import of genetically modified corn

Mexico repeals regulation that prevented the import of genetically modified corn

February 8, 2025 |

In Argentina, La Voz del Interior reported that Mexico’s government lifted restrictions on imports of genetically modified corn for human consumption. The Ministry of Economy published in the Official Gazette of the Federation the agreement that nullified the application of various restrictions on glyphosate and transgenic corn agreed by the previous government in 2023. For […]

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Thai corn, rice output forecast to rebound this year

Thai corn, rice output forecast to rebound this year

February 8, 2025 |

In Missouri, World Grain reported that Thailand’s rice and corn production in the 2024-25 marketing year is forecast to increase due to acreage expansion and average yield improvement, according to a report from the Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) of the US Department of Agriculture.  The report noted that favorable water supplies in reservoirs in key […]

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Prolonged lack of rain threatens Ukraine’s crops, scientists say

Prolonged lack of rain threatens Ukraine’s crops, scientists say

February 8, 2025 |

In Ukraine, The Straits Times reported that Ukraine is experiencing the lowest soil moisture levels of the last seven seasons, raising concerns about yields in 2025. “The total amount of precipitation for November-January was only 79.6 mm and was significantly inferior to the long-term average of 117 mm,” according to the Ukrainian national agricultural academy. […]

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Argentina’s corn planting area climbs

Argentina’s corn planting area climbs

February 7, 2025 |

In Missouri, World Grain reported that the corn planting area in Argentina was revised upward to 6.6 million hectares from 6.3 million hectares in the latest Buenos Aires Grains Exchange estimate. The report noted that soybean planting area is now pegged at 18.4 million hectares, a reduction of 200,000 hectares from the previous estimate as […]

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Rabobank estimates 15 million tonne increase in Brazil’s soybean harvest

Rabobank estimates 15 million tonne increase in Brazil’s soybean harvest

February 7, 2025 |

In Brazil, Dinheiro Rural reported that Brazil’s 2024/25 soybean harvest is expected to grow by 15 million tons compared to the previous year’s harvest, to a record 170 million tons, due to favorable weather conditions mainly in the country’s north-central states, according to Marcela Marini, analyst with Rabobank Marini said that the harvest in Mato […]

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Harvest of the 2024/25 summer corn crop in Brazil reaches 16.1%

Harvest of the 2024/25 summer corn crop in Brazil reaches 16.1%

February 7, 2025 |

In Brazil, Safras & Mercado reported that the harvest of the 2024/25 summer corn crop in Brazil reached 16.1% of the estimated area of ​​3.512 million hectares as of the end of January. Harvesting work has reached 39.8% of the 886,000-hectare cultivated area in Rio Grande do Sul state, 26.7% of the 583,000 hectares planted […]

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Argentina bought 84% of Paraguay’s soybean production in 2024

Argentina bought 84% of Paraguay’s soybean production in 2024

February 7, 2025 |

In Argentina, Noticias Agropecuarias reported that Argentina purchased 80% of the total soybean production in Paraguay for the 2023/2024 campaign, according to a report by the Paraguayan Chamber of Exporters and Traders of Cereals and Oilseeds (CAPECO). The report stated that Argentina was the main buyer of Paraguayan soybeans with 84% of the market, followed […]

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Argentine farmers complete soybean planting, exchange says

Argentine farmers complete soybean planting, exchange says

February 2, 2025 |

In Argentina, the Buenos Aires Grain Exchange reported that soybean planting has been completed nationwide, following a week-on-week progress of 0.8 percentage points. Despite recent rainfall, the adequate to optimal soil moisture level has improved by only 3 percentage points, according to the exchange. As a result, 72% of the planted area remains in normal […]

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National Sorghum Producers and Sorghum Checkoff conclude trade mission to India

National Sorghum Producers and Sorghum Checkoff conclude trade mission to India

February 2, 2025 |

In North Dakota, KFGO reported that National Sorghum Producers and the United Sorghum Checkoff Program recently joined the U.S. Grains Council for its annual Joint Officers’ Mission in India, held January. 12–17, to strengthen relationships with the country’s feed industry, explore sustainable aviation fuel priorities and highlight U.S. sorghum as a non-genetically modified (GM) option […]

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Uruguay on track to double the area of ​​rapeseed and carinata in the next harvest

Uruguay on track to double the area of ​​rapeseed and carinata in the next harvest

February 2, 2025 |

In Argentina, Ambito reported that Uruguay is on track to double the area of ​​rapeseed and carinata cultivated during the next 2025/2026 harvest with some 250,000 hectares planted, 100% more than in the 2024/2025 campaign when 125,000 hectares were reached nationwide, based on data from Urupov and IPB. Pablo Uteda, the general manager of Nuseed […]

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