Archive for March 28th, 2022

PRETORIA, SOUTH AFRICA — Despite high commodity prices to provide incentive for corn and wheat planting, acreage for the two crops in South Africa is expected to remain flat in the 2022-23 marketing year due to the lack of availability and high cost of inputs, according to a Global Agricultural Information Network report from the Foreign Agricultural Service of the US Department of Agriculture (USDA).

The USDA said the cost of farming inputs, especially fertilizer, more than doubled this past year, ...

TEL AVIV, ISRAEL — Weather conditions are expected to lead to an 8.2% drop in Israel’s wheat production to 90 million tonnes in 2022-23, according to a report by the Foreign Agricultural Service of the US Department of Agriculture (USDA).

The 2022-23 growing season began with late rains and almost no rainfall in some of the wheat growing areas. The production increase in 2021-22 was attributed to good precipitation during the mild winter with no extreme weather.

Total wheat imports are estimated ...