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Post forecasts cotton planted area for 2017/18 to increase to one million hectares based on higher prices and domestic demand.

On Friday, March 31, 2017, the Guatemalan Ministry of Economy and the United States Trade Representative’s Office signed an agreement to eliminate the tariff on U.S. chicken leg quarters.

The Secretariat of Economy (SE) published in the Diario Oficial (Federal Register) on March 31, 2017, an announcement containing the maximum quota allotment of sugar to be exported....

Post forecast overall sugar production of 530,000 Metric Tons (MT) during Marketing Year (MY) 2017/2018 (October/September).

Heavy rains, landslides and flooding continue in Peru.

In MY 2014/15, a larger harvest area was realized for Chilean wheat over the previous marketing year (MY).

Following confirmation by USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) of an outbreak of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI), on March 6, 2017, in a measured response....

The Safe Food for Canadians Act implementing regulations, which simplify and consolidate the authorities under previous acts regulating food, are expected to be published in Gazette Part I...

FAS Canada assists in releasing three frozen food shipments, totaling $25,000. Each shipment was at risk of being destroyed or returned to the U.S.

Fishmeal production in marketing year (MY) 2017/2018 (January-December 2018) is forecast at 705,000 metric tons (MT), three percent lower than the estimated production in the previous year.

Peru is one of the top markets for pulses in Latin America. A staple of the Peruvian diet, consumption is steady and driven by tradition, affordability, and the view that it is a healthy protein....

Canada's oilseed production (canola, soybeans, and sunflowers) for 2017/2018 is forecast to rise modestly to 25.3 million metric tons (MMT), up one percent from 2016/2017....