Today the focus will be on the CEC’s sixth production estimate

Deidre Carter — Thu, 26 Jul 2018 07:54:11 +0000

The favourable weather conditions in the past couple of weeks provided conducive conditions for the harvest process. The progress is reflected in the volumes of maize delivered to commercial silos which amounted to 746 087 tonnes in the week of 20 July 2018, down by 4 percent from the previous week.
About 63 percent of this was white maize, with 37 percent being yellow maize. This shows that the central and the western parts of South Africa are starting to make good progress, unlike the previous weeks when the deliveries were largely yellow maize, which is predominantly planted in the eastern parts of South Africa.
This placed the country’s 2018/19 maize marketing year producer deliveries at 6.7 million tonnes, which equates to 51 percent of the estimated harvest of 13.2 million tonnes. Yellow maize accounts for 54 percent of overall maize deliveries, with white maize accounting for 46 percent. The yields in areas that have harvested largely varied between average and above average, which is somewhat in line with market expectations.
Today the Crop Estimate Committee (CEC) will release its sixth production estimate for South Africa’s 2017/18 maize production. Reuters analysts’ survey shows that the Committee could lift its estimate for commercial maize production by a percentage point from the current estimate of 13.2 million tonnes to 13.3 million tonnes. This is in line with Bloomberg analysts’ survey.
Looking ahead, the weather forecast for the next two weeks is quite favourable over most parts of the maize-belt, with clear skies, which bodes well with the summer crop harvest process.

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Today the focus will be on the CEC’s sixth production estimate