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Post forecasts Calendar Year (CY) 2016 grape production at 2.67 million metric tons (MMT) under normal weather conditions and maintaining the current good sanitary conditions of the vineyards.

Argentine wheat production for crop 2015/16 is forecast down at 12 million tons due to a projected smaller planted area.

Post forecasts 2015/16 soybean area at 20.3 million hectares, marginally lower than Post’s 2014/15 area estimate, though up 2.5 percent from USDA 2014/15 estimates.

In the past decade, one of the most apparent trends agricultural trade patterns has been the growth in agricultural trade between developing countries or so-called “South-South trade.”

Argentine beef production for 2015 and 2014 is lowered from USDA’s official number to 2.7 million tons carcass weight equivalent as a result of a drop in slaughter numbers, due to market dynamics...

With the 2014/15 soybean planting virtually 100 percent complete, Post adjusts soybean planted estimate slightly down to 20.8 million hectares.

Post continues to estimate wheat production for 2014/15 at 12.5 million tons, 500,000 tons higher than USDA, on 4.2 million hectares, 100,000 hectares higher than USDA.

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Production of all three types of citrus in MY 2014/2015 is estimated to rebound, as a result of good weather conditions and the recuperation of plants that had been previously affected by frosts.

Post forecast Argentina’s milk production for calendar year (CY) 2015 at 11.7 million tons, a three percent decrease from CY2014 USDA’s estimates.

Robust soybean planting in Cordoba province and smooth planting in the rest of the country are trending national production area towards the 2014/15 soybean forecast of 21 million hectares.

Post forecasts production at above normal levels as production rebounds following 2014 series of bad weather and to the natural lifecycle of plants.