South Africa Reduces Corn Crop Estimate by 1.9% on Dry Weather
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South Africa’s Crop Estimates Committee cut its forecast for this season’s corn crop by 1.9 percent because of dry weather in the Free State and Mpumalanga provinces.
Farmers may produce 10.83 million metric tons of corn this season, Marda Scheepers, a spokeswoman for the committee, said by phone from Pretoria today. The committee’s last forecast was for a crop of 11.04 million tons.