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US Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said Mexico's GMO corn ban would apply only to corn for human food and not to feed-grade corn, based on talks with Mexico's agriculture secretary. He also said the impact would be smaller than a full ban.
If feed corn is exempt, Mexico's major US corn import demand for livestock feed is protected, which supports US corn export prices.
After 318 past bullish policy events, Corn moved a median -0.1% over 5 sessions (48% higher; middle half -1.4% to +1.5%), and -0.2% over 20.
Moves of each commodity's benchmark from the last close before the event. Historical reads pool past events of the same kind; they describe what happened, not what will. Not investment advice.