Global Economy
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See all of the report numbers and analysis from today’s World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates and Crop Production reports.
Corn output in China may drop for the first time in five years because of drought in the North China Plain, the country’s second-biggest producing region.
Two countries reach agreement on final protocol, USDA says.
Here’s the latest from the USDA’s World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates:
A severe drought that is threatening Asia’s top rice producers and drying up the Mekong River basin in Southeast Asia has exerted only limited impact on prices, thanks to last year’s huge rice surplus, according to officials.
Drought hurt crop production for Canadian wheat and canola this year, according to Statistics Canada’s latest Production of Principal Field Crops report released Friday, Oct. 2.
According to a recent Stats Canada crop survey, extremely dry fields in Alberta and Saskatchewan have cut into the yield potential of both crops.
The monsoon’s revival from mid-July has boosted India’s rice and soybean crops, curbing food price gains and easing concerns of shortages.
Rice farmer Boontham Chei-pa switches on a water pump in the evenings to irrigate his parched field from a canal in Thailand’s central province of Suphanburi.