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MY 17/18 corn production is estimated lower at 83 MMT, due to late-planted safrinha corn, reduced crop inputs, and dry conditions in some states.

Colombia recently increased their biofuel blend mandate to 10 percent for most of the country.

This report contains revised production and trade forecasts for MY2018/19 as well as updated trade and consumption estimates for MY2017/18.

Overall grain production is expected to fall in MY2018/19 due to weather-stress and a flurry of domestic support and trade policy developments.

The winter wheat and barley harvests began earlier than usual in 2018. As of June 21, about 47 percent of barley and 4 percent of wheat areas were harvested.

Romanian grain production is likely to decline in Marketing Year (MY) 2018/19 by eight percent, based on the current crop status and initial harvest reports.

General good growing conditions indicate a good grain crop for MY2018/19 in Algeria.

On April 19, 2018, the Italian District Court of Udine acquitted Giorgio Fidenato, President of the Federated Farmers Association of the charge of having cultivated GE maize....

Total production of grain and other crops on a grain equivalent basis is estimated at 5.75 million metric tons (5 MMT, milled basis for rice and grain equivalent for soybeans) in marketing year....

Due to the climatic challenges, Post estimates that Zimbabwe’s corn area harvested decreased by 36 percent to 1.2 million hectares in the 2018/19 MY..

On May 16, 2017, the Ministry of Agriculture (MOA) raised the third advance estimate for grains production for the Indian Crop Year 2017/18 (July-June) to a record 279.5 million metric tons (MMT).

Post concurs with the official USDA estimates for wheat, corn and rice. No revisions are proposed for this update.