Mexican buyers booked deals to buy their largest volume of corn from the United States since Dec­ember 2019, the U.S. Agriculture Department (USDA) said last week, according to Reuters.

The sale of 1.433 million metric tons of U.S. corn was booked in two segments. The USDA said 891,540 metric tons of corn was booked for delivery in the current 2020/21 marketing year that ends on Aug. 31, with...