date:May 16, 2013
A record 2 million tonnes of South American corn is being sent to the United States this season to compensate for last year's weak harvest, industry sources based in Buenos Aires have said.
The Brazilian and Argentine corn - mainly being used in Virginia and North Carolina as chicken and hog feed - is expected to keep flowing northward until September, when the new U.S. crop starts being harvested, they said.
After the worst drought in decades parched the Midwest farm belt in 2012, U.S. commer