Trade
The US Is Losing the Corn-Exporting Crown
Latin America’s biggest country shipped more of the staple crop overseas in the 2023 season, and it’s on track to do it again in 2024.
The US will no longer be the top exporter of corn.
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For more than half a century, US farmers dominated the international market for corn, shipping more of the critical crop than any other country to feed the world’s livestock, fill its stockpiles and manufacture its processed foods.
No more. In the agricultural year ending Aug. 31, the US handed the corn-exporting crown to Brazil. And it might never get it back.