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The estimated area planted to Genetically Engineered (GE) crops in Canada was down 2 percent in 2018, due primarily to lower soybean area in the prairie provinces.

While Chile remains the tenth largest producer of seeds in the world and the United States is the largest market for Genetically Engineered (GE) seeds, seed developers and researchers....

The National Committee for the Sustainable Development of Sugarcane (CONADESUCA), through the Secretariat of Economy (SE), published in the Diario Oficial (Federal Register), the standard sugar....

For Marketing Year October 2018/ September 2019 (MY2018/19), Post forecasts overall production to be lower than MY2017/18, at 560,000 MT, due to unfavorable weather conditions.

Brazil’s MY 2018/19 sugarcane crush has been revised down to 610 million metric tons (mmt), due to dry weather in the major growing areas of São Paulo and Parana during the harvest season.

Mexican sugar exports for MY 2018/19 are forecast to increase to 1.7 million metric tons raw value (MMT-RV) on a production surplus, resulting in an unprecedented increase in export certificate....

The Secretariat of Economy (SE) on August 15, 2018, announced in the Diario Oficial (Federal Register) a maximum sugar quota of 750,876.85 metric tons on a raw value basis for export....

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

Nicaragua’s sugar production reached a new record high in Market Year (MY) 2017/2018.

While MY2018/19 Argentine forecast for sugar production and consumption maintain stable levels, exports plummet to 150,000 tons (raw value), due to stagnant production and lower beginning stocks.

Costa Rica’s sugar cane production is forecast to decline 8.31 percent in MY 2017/2018.

Mexican sugar production for marketing year 2018/19 is forecast to be 6.57 million metric tons raw value (MMT-RV), although there is not yet an official forecast.