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The Turkish Grain Board (TMO) completed a corn import tender on April 19, 2017. TMO purchased about 77,000 MT of corn to be sourced from the European Union (EU) and Serbia in the tender.

The Turkish government’s 2017 young farmers’ program subsidies will be granted to the livestock sector including cattle, sheep and goat, poultry, beekeeping....

Mexican sugar production for marketing year (MY) 2017/18 is forecast to be 6.6 million metric tons raw-value (MMT-RV), although there is not yet an official forecast.

Lower polarity rates in the last two harvest seasons in Turkey and unchanged sugar quotas led to a substantial increase in sugar imports in 2015.

Mexican oilseed production is expected to fall in marketing year 2017/18, as reduced government support and other factors make alternative crops more attractive for farmers.

Post forecasts 18 MMT of wheat production and a planting area of 7.82 million ha in MY 2017/18. Post forecasts corn planting area at 550,000 ha and production at 5.5 MMT for MY 2017/18.

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....

In January 2016, Turkey’s Ministry of Food Agriculture and Livestock added new categories to their genetic requirements which broadened the variety of genetics which can be imported to Turkey.

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....