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Minnesota Farm Guide: Leading Farm Newspaper Minnesota Farm Guide: Leading Farm Newspaper--Minnesota Agriculture. ... Ukraine , Romania, Russia and Bulgaria may become corn exporters in the future. ... Click here for more info or enter your email to sign up.Email:Zip Code: Livestock SalesNever miss a sale. Weekly email of upcoming regional sales. Click here for more information or enter your email address below.Email:Zip Code: Ag BuzzCatch up on recent UMN Extension blogs. Baize and Associates, recently spoke on this topic with foreign agriculture attaches visiting rural Minnesota.“This may not be popular with some of our friends in Europe,” he said. Production is forecast at 789 million metric tons (31.1 billion bushels).The global demand for corn is expected to increase by 24 million metric tons (945 million bushels) in 2008/2009, Baize said. Global ending stocks for 2008/2009 are forecast at 112 million metric tons (4.4 billion bushels).The United States produces much more corn than other countries. Next was Mexico, 23 (906 million bushels) Argentina, 21 (827 million bushels), India, 19 (748 million bushels), South Africa, 12 (472 million bushels), and Canada with 12 million metric tons (472 million bushels).Yields are also higher in the U.S., Baize said. The rest of the world is forecast to raise an average of 3.7 metric tons (146 bushels) of corn per hectare (2.471 acres).“There is no other place in the world that is as good at growing corn as the U.S.,” Baize said. Argentina and Brazil offer corn for export. Ukraine, Romania, Russia and Bulgaria may become corn exporters in the future.Japan imports about 16.6 million metric tons (653.5 million bushels) of corn, while the EU-27 imports 13 million metric tons (511.8 million bushels) per year. Mexico and South Korea both import about 9 million metric tons (354 million bushels).“They need it for their livestock industry and they come to the U.S. Argentina ranked next with 15.5 million metric tons (610 million bushels), followed by Brazil with 9 million metric tons (354 million bushels) in corn exports.Soybeans supplies are tightThe U.S. Brazil is expected to export about 29 million metric tons (1.065 billion bushels) of soybeans, while the U.S. We have to have another Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay combined to reach 70 million tons,” he said. Pakistan grows by 99 million to 272 million people, Bangladesh by 97 million to 251 million people and Nigeria by 93 million to 239 million peopleThe U.S.