USDA forecasts total corn production in Brazil at a record 109.0 million metric tons (mmt), down 1 mmt (1 percent) from last month, but up 7.0 mmt (7 percent) from last year’s record. Total harvested area, for both the first-season and second-season corn crops, is forecast at a record 19.5 million hectares (mha), up 1.0 mha (5 percent) from last year’s record area of 18.5 mha. Yield is forecast at 5.59 tons per hectare (t/ha), about 1 percent higher than last year’s crop. The forecasted yield is 3 percent lower than the previous record of 5.77 t/ha in 2018/19, but up 7 percent from the 5-year average of 5.20 t/ha. (For more information, please contact Sunita.Yadav-Pauletti@usda.gov.)