Maize crop unchanged at 11.5m tons

This year SA's maize harvest is expected to settle at 11.5m tons according to an I-Net Bridge survey of traders. It is unchanged from August.
Maize crop unchanged at 11.5m tons

The crop estimates committee will on Thursday (26 September) deliver an updated report on summer crop estimates.

"A good harvest in Mpumalanga has compensated for the shortfall in North West‚ which encountered a dry spell during the production period‚" Vrystaat Mielies trader Marcel Lombard said.

In August‚ the maize crop estimate was increased by 1.04% to 11.5m tons‚ mainly based on actual producer deliveries‚ as reported by South African Grain and Information Service (Sagis) and better yields obtained for the yellow maize crop.

Producer deliveries are currently sitting at 9.84m tons‚ according to the Sagis data.


 
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