Morocco's overall wheat and barley plantings are up by about 11 percent with production expected to increase by 69 percent compared with last year. Wheat imports are forecast to drop as a result, and the government has raised the wheat import tariff to 75 percent.
Regional Updates Mediterranean/Middle East Comments According to the latest USDA/FAS report on Morocco, overall wheat and barley plantings are up by about 11 percent. Production is expected to increase by 69 percent from last year's very low total of 11.5 MMT, which included 5.6 MMT of wheat, 2.4 MMT of durum and 3.5 MMT of barley. As a result of the good crop year, wheat imports are forecast to drop by about 20 percent to 2.8 MMT. The Moroccan government has recently...
The corn and soy complex closed higher, with the wheat market mixed, as winter wheat closed up but spring wheat and livestock ended lower. Part of the strength for corn and soybeans may have been a weather premium, as crop planting has started out fast but warm weather has been slow to develop...
Real GDP grew at a 2 percent annual rate in the first quarter of 2026, slightly below the consensus expectation of 2.3 percent but above the 0.5 percent growth in Q4 2025. The GDP number matches the average annualized pace of growth since the peak back in late 2007, right before the Financial P...
Reflect for a moment on what you eat. There is a lot of advice out there in the ether about what you should eat, but really, what do you currently eat and how much? The good people at the USDA have some data for you, to help you answer that question. USDA says that we eat quite a bit of meat. L...
