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Zimbabwe's Meteorological Services director Amos Makarau urges farmers to keep preparing land despite late rains after a prolonged drought. He says forecasts still call for good rains and expects November rainfall to build moisture.
Expected normal rains in southern Africa would ease the regional maize deficit, which is mildly bearish for import demand and white maize prices.
After 357 past bearish weather events, Corn moved a median -0.3% over 5 sessions (44% higher; middle half -2.2% to +1.3%), and -0.5% 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.