Corn production estimates last month by the U.S. Department of Agriculture for Argentina and Brazil may have been understated, as a report from Informa Economics on March 2 said.
Drought in both countries resulted in the USDA projection a 22 million ton harvest in Argentina and a 61 million ton harvest in Brazil. According to Informa, those numbers could reach 22.5 million tons of corn harvested in Argentina and 61.5 million tons or corn harvested in Brazil for 2012.
Offsetting that data was the news South Korea’s Nonghyup Feed Inc., the largest buyer of feed grains in the country, acquired 126,000 metric tons of U.S. corn on March second, which is scheduled for July delivery.
That has helped push up the price of corn futures slightly in Monday trading.
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