Regional Updates MEDITERRANEAN/MIDDLE EAST/NORTH AFRICA Afghanistan officials say the country may need to import as much as 3 MMT of wheat in 2021/22 due to expected very low rainfall levels. According to some reports the rainfall will be down by 30 percent which could reduce local wheat production by 1.5 MMT to 2.9 MMT. The Sindh Province in Pakistan expects a very good wheat crop this season with the government’s target set at 4 MMT of production – up slightly from last year’s 3.8 MMT. However, there are concerns and complaints in Sindh that the local wheat support price has been set too high (higher than in neighboring provinces) which could easily lead to the interprovincial movement of wheat in search of the...
Weather concerns and the impacts of the war in Iran helped push wheat and corn to sharp gains Tuesday, with both markets blowing past key technical resistance levels. The weather is now coupled with geopolitical tensions that look increasingly hard to resolve, which is giving funds the perfect...
Congress is moving forward with its FY 2027 spending bills, while also still working to address FY 2026 funding for the Department of Homeland Security, which is still in a shutdown. The House Agriculture-FDA Appropriations Subcommittee marked up and passed its FY 2027 bill. The House bill prov...
Mediterranean/Middle East/North Africa/Africa – MEA Region Tunisian researchers have been able to fully sequence the genomes of two local durum wheat types that have been grown in Tunisia for generations. They say that this “could be the key to developing more climate-resistant duru...
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