Forecast Gap Keeping Wheat Market Guessing on Argentine Crop
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The global wheat market has the least clarity in five years on South America’s biggest crop as Argentine growers hit by adverse weather say the government is exaggerating harvest estimates to contain price increases.
The government’s forecast for the crop farmers started harvesting in November is 7.1 percent higher than the Buenos Aires Grain Exchange’s, the largest discrepancy since at least