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Rice ending stocks are projected to decrease to 1.7 million metric tons (MMT) and 1.2 MMT in marketing year (MY) 2016/17 and MY 2017/18 respectively, as the Korean government has begun allowing....

The Ministry of Agricultural Policy and Food of Ukraine (MAPF) and representatives of local nongovernmental organizations signed an Addendum to the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on grain....

For marketing year (MY) 2017/18 (May to April), Post’s estimates for total rice area and production is lowered to 11.3 million hectares and 33.1 million tons (MMT) due to heavy and prolonged rain....

Farmgate prices for rice and corn are under downward pressure as MY2017/18 supplies enter the market.

Canadian wheat production in 2017 has been a success story for improved crop genetics, as yields across the prairie provinces are in line with the five-year average....

On October 24, 2017, Taiwan completed normal tender GF4-106-086 for 6,000 tons of U.S. rice (6,900 tons on a brown rice basis).

Post forecasts that South Africa will export about 2 million tons of corn in the 2017/18 MY, drawing on a relatively large carry-over stock from the 2016/17 MY.

Russia is harvesting its largest ever grain crop that may exceed 128 MMT according to official reports.

Tropical Storm Nate passed through Costa Rica in early October causing widespread damage to infrastructure and to agriculture.

MY 2017/18 milled rice production at 107.5 million metric tons (MMT) on lower than expected planting and yield due to suboptimal weather conditions during critical growth stages....

Nigeria’s wheat consumption continues to increase as prices of other major locally grown staples remain higher than those for wheat products.

FAS Amman (Post) forecasts Jordan’s wheat imports in MY 2017/18 to reach 1.1 million metric tons (MT).