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Corn in progress just east of Blumenort, Man. on July 20, 2022. (Dave Bedard photo)

Mexico open to deal with U.S. on GMO corn

U.S. corn growers seek clarity over ban

By Dave Graham, GFM Network News November 29, 2022

Mexico City | Reuters — Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Tuesday he is seeking a deal with Washington after the United States threatened legal action over Mexico’s plan to ban genetically modified (GMO) corn in 2024. After meeting with Mexican officials on Monday, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack said Mexico’s decree

Markets, News

Mexico not buying U.S. yellow corn as GM ban looms

By Reuters November 22, 2022

Mexico’s government cannot make purchases of yellow corn from the United States because it does not want genetically modified product, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said Nov. 9, amid pressure from its top trade partner over the future of the imports. The United States wanted to sell Mexico more yellow corn and Mexico declined, Lopez

Brazil could soon overtake the United States as top corn supplier, as it did for soybeans a decade ago.

Cereals, Opinion

Opinion: U.S. corn market share threatened by importers and fellow suppliers alike

By Karen Braun November 21, 2022

Reuters – Logistical troubles and a poor 2022 crop have dampened early hopes for U.S. corn exporters, but recent global market developments could present longer-term, negative impacts on the traditional corn giant. The United States was once responsible for more than three-fourths of world corn exports, but that share has slipped to around 30 per

Markets, News

U.S. needs to press Mexico on looming biotech corn ban, Vilsack says

By Tom Polansek October 12, 2022

Reuters – U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack says he continues to talk with officials in Mexico about that country’s looming ban on genetically modified (GM) corn, adding that it will be important to get clarity on the issue in 2023. A decree issued by Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador in late 2020 would phase

Deere & Co mower production to move from Iowa to Mexico plant

By GFM Network News July 29, 2022

Mexico City | Reuters – U.S. farm equipment maker Deere & Co DE.N will be moving production of mower conditioners, which are tractor attachments with rolling discs to cut and crush hay, from a factory in Ottumwa, Iowa, to an existing plant in Mexico over the next 18 months, the company said. The company told Reuters late

A Mexican port-of-entry sign on Highway 92 near Naco, Arizona. (Rex_Wholster/iStock/Getty Images)

Markets

CUSMA leaders to discuss agreement during Mexico visit

By GFM Network News, Reuters July 5, 2022

Mexico City | Reuters — U.S. President Joe Biden and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will discuss terms of the Canada-U.S.-Mexico (CUSMA) agreement, which was ratified in 2018, during a visit to Mexico, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said Monday. “We’ll have a summit to discuss terms of the trade agreement treaty… in Mexico,”

File photo of chicks on a genetic map of a chicken. (Peggy Greb photo courtesy ARS/USDA)

Livestock

H7N3 avian flu found in chickens in Mexico, near Texas border

By GFM Network News, Reuters April 25, 2022

Mexico City | Reuters — Mexico’s agriculture ministry on Saturday reported outbreaks of highly pathogenic H7N3 bird flu virus in two hatching egg production barns in the northern state of Coahuila, which borders on Texas. The strain in question has existed in some regions of the country since 2012, the ministry said in a statement.

Cereals, Markets

Mexican wheat production rises, declines for corn

By Adam Peleshaty – MarketsFarm, GFM Network News December 30, 2021

MarketsFarm – Production numbers for Mexico’s wheat and corn went in opposite directions, according to the latest Global Agricultural Information Network (GAIN) report from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) released on Dec. 28. The country’s wheat production forecast for the 2021-22 marketing year (July to June) was revised to reflect a 2.3 per

Water rolls over a road and into a field after rainstorms lashed British Columbia, triggering landslides and floods, shutting highways, in Abbotsford November 30.

Weather

Mexico seeks to overhaul Canada migrant farm worker program amid climate disasters

B.C. flooding and heat wave have underscored the vulnerability of these workers

By Anna Mehler Paperny December 15, 2021

Mexico is pushing for changes to Canada’s migrant farm worker program, a top Mexican official told Reuters, as migrants beset by natural disasters call for better pay, accessible care, labour mobility and employment insurance. Mexico is renegotiating its Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program agreement with Ottawa. The agreement outlines Mexican migrant farm workers’ rights and conditions

A cornfield in Mexico’s Chihuahua state. (Undefined undefined/iStock/Getty Images)

Crops, Markets

Mexico won’t limit GMO corn imports from U.S., ag minister says

By GFM Network News, Tom Polansek October 23, 2021

Ankeny, Iowa | Reuters — Mexico’s agriculture minister said the country would not limit imports of genetically modified (GMO) corn from the United States during a meeting with U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack in Iowa on Wednesday. Mexico published an executive order late last year that sought to ban in three years the use of

Daily Network News

U.S. livestock: ‘Relentless’ fund selling knocks down CME cattle futures

U.S. grains: Soy futures slide as traders worry China may miss US buying target

Pulse Weekly: Steady prices, high production for chickpeas

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