Source: South Africa’s maize export activity continues, but at a slower pace I am at my desk reviewing agricultural data we received this week, and I thought I should update the maize trade comment I posted last week. We continue to observe maize exports from South Africa to the Southern African region, but the volumes remain much smaller than I anticipated. The stocks are low in Zimbabwe, and I thought they would be buying large volumes of maize by now. Perhaps we are yet to see such imports. We currently have modest exports from South Africa to the region. For example, South Africa exported 42,931 tonnes of maize last week, with approximately 56% going to Zimbabwe, and the remainder to other countries in the Southern African region. This placed South Africa’s 2025-26 maize exports at 1.42 million tonnes, out of the expected seasonal exports of 2.40 million tonnes. The current marketing year only ends in April 2026. We expect more robust export activity this quarter, driven by ...