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Recent tight domestic corn supplies have resulted in higher import demand for feed wheat.

Export prices declined slightly due to continued weakening of Thai baht currency and pressure from the competition of Vietnamese rice.

Since last reported in GAIN, South Africa has not finalized issues related to its concerns over the trade measures that stop exports of U.S. poultry, beef, and pork.

Export prices declined 1 percent mainly due to continued weakening of Thai baht.

Post forecasts that the 2015/16 MY raisin production will decrease by thirteen percent to 55,000 MT, following the record level raisin production of 63,000 MT in the 2014/15 MY.

Export prices declined 1 percent due to continued weakening of Thai baht and lack of inquiries. Traders are awaiting the result of public tender for around 0.7 million metric tons issued on August 10.

The production area of Genetically Engineered (GE) crops in South Africa was unchanged in 2014, at 2.9 million hectares, making South Africa the ninth largest producer of GE crops in the world...

Export prices for most grades of rice are basically unchanged from the previous week except for fragrant rice.

For the 2015/16 MY, post forecasts that South Africa will return to be a net exporter of about 1.5 million tons of corn, as commercial production is expected to exceed 12.0 million tons...

Minister of Agriculture Kátia Abreu discussed expanding beef, poultry, dairy, fruit, and wheat trade with Russia, Myanmar, Japan, South Africa, and Argentina.

Thai rice exports are revised down to 9.0 million metric tons in anticipation of tighter exportable supplies of new-crop white rice & limited availability of good old-crop rice in the government stock

Export prices declined 1 to 3 percent due to the weakening of Thai baht.