With production surging by 4.4%, corn will drive world cereal grain production to record levels in 2020/2021, said the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in its first forecast of the new crops.
According to Successful Farming, it was the second forecast in a week of record global output as the planting season ends in the northern hemisphere.
The FAO forecast cereal grain production of 2.781 billion tonnes, up 2.6% from the record set in 2019/2020.
The International Grains Council, in a report that preceded the FAO forecast by a week, projected wheat and feed grain crops would total a record 2.23 billion tonnes in 2020/2021, a 2% increase.
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