
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who took office December 1, 2018, is pursuing an agriculture plan aimed at self-sufficiency in basic grains and support for family farmers. Farmers' organizations have endorsed a 21st-century Plan de Ayala referencing land reform.
The article is an opinion piece on these plans.
A push for grain self-sufficiency in Mexico could eventually reduce Mexican corn imports from the US, a long-term bearish factor for US corn exports, though the article gives no near-term price mechanism.
Tras 310 eventos bajista de política pasados, Maíz se movió una mediana de +0,3 % en 5 sesiones (54% al alza; mitad central entre -1,4 % y +1,9 %), y +0,6 % en 20.
Variaciones de la referencia de cada materia prima desde el último cierre antes del evento. Las lecturas históricas agrupan eventos pasados del mismo tipo; describen lo ocurrido, no lo que ocurrirá. No es asesoramiento de inversión.