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.
