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The increase in, for example, white and yellow maize, us now at 7.75 million tonnes and 6.91 million tonnes, 16% higher than the 2023-24 season.
AGRICULTURE

SA white maize falls to two-year low as harvest starts

The price of maize has slumped in expectation of a bumper crop and the biggest in over three decades.

  • Paul Burkhardt
1 min read
South Africa’s Crop Estimates Committee lowered the 2023-24 maize harvest to 12,8 million tonnes, down 2% from last month and 22% from the previous season.
BVG

SA white maize rises to 17-year high on supply concern

Tight supply aggravated by drought in the North West is causing local maize prices to rise to import parity.

  • Paul Burkhardt
2 min read