South Africa: Produces 2nd highest corn crop

South Africa produced its second highest corn crop on record of 16.1 million tonnes in the 2019/20 MY, which is 38% higher than the 2018/19 MY’s crop of 11.3 million tonnes. This bumper corn crop is suppressing local corn prices and is expected to continue to do so past the 2020/21 MY’s planting season, putting downward pressure on the area to be planted with corn later in 2020. White corn This is especially true for the white corn areas, as South Africa produced an ample white corn crop o