Source: Bill Tomson, AGRI-PULSE, 8/10/16

Brazil's Ministry of Agriculture, desperate to open up new feed supplies for the livestock industry, is asking the country's biotech regulatory agency to temporarily lift restrictions on corn imports from the U.S., according to USDA's Foreign Agricultural Service. Brazil's second yearly corn crop, the safrinha, “is looking worse and worse as the harvest continues and there are fears that Brazil will run out of corn by 2017,” FAS said a report released today.

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