South Africa Corn Crop Rises to Second Largest on Record on Rain
People buy corn from a street vendor in Johannesburg.
Photographer: Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg
South African farmers probably produced the second-biggest corn crop on record in 2025 as the country experienced good rains earlier in the year.
Commercial growers likely harvested 16.4 million tons of white and yellow corn, the Crop Estimates Committee said in an email on Thursday. That’s 0.7% more than the October forecast and compares with 12.9 million tons a year earlier, which was the least since 2019.