Dry spell puts the brakes on original maize yield estimates

While national maize prices have dropped after an even greater drop in the projected maize crop failed to materialise, prices are likely to rebound as a result of anticipated lowest ever national ending stocks combined with lower harvests. If SA is to meet its domestic and export demands for the 2012/13 marketing season the national maize harvest estimate cannot afford to drop much lower.

Read the full story in the 20 April 2012 issue of FW.