Insights and Stories on Brazil

Favourable growing conditions forecast for major ag regions

Jan. 23, 2020 at 4:47 pm CST

MarketsFarm — Canadian producers looking for challenging growing conditions elsewhere in the world to prop up commodity prices may be disappointed during the 2020 growing season. South America “If you’re looking for any help from South America for your canola or soybeans or corn, you’d better look somewhere else,” Drew […]

Zimbabwe says grain stocks running out after drought

Jan. 23, 2020 at 2:23 pm CST

By Reuters

Trade deal will not affect China’s other ag suppliers, Liu says

Jan. 16, 2020 at 1:03 pm CST

By Hallie Gu Shivani Singh

U.S. grains: Wheat up, corn and soy down awaiting USDA data

Jan. 9, 2020 at 7:34 pm CST

By Karl Plume

Brazil to become top soybean producer, USDA says

Jan. 8, 2020 at 2:30 am CST

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

U.S. grains: Soybeans slide as rain boosts South American crops

Jan. 7, 2020 at 8:04 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters –– U.S. soybean futures ended mostly lower on Tuesday on crop-boosting rains in South America and as investors squared positions ahead of a key U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) crop report due on Friday, although short-covering trimmed losses late in the session. Corn and wheat futures were […]

By Karl Plume

U.S. won’t levy new tariffs on Brazil, Trump tells Bolsonaro

Dec. 20, 2019 at 7:46 pm CST

Sao Paulo | Reuters — Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said on Friday that U.S. President Donald Trump told him in a phone conversation that his administration will not levy new tariffs on Brazilian steel and aluminum as threatened earlier this month. “I had a phone conversation a few moments ago […]

By Reuters

U.S. grains: Soybeans, corn rise as traders adjust positions

Dec. 20, 2019 at 7:00 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. soybean and corn futures ticked higher on Friday as traders adjusted positions ahead of the year-end holidays. Lingering uncertainty over demand prospects created by a U.S.-China trade deal hung over the markets. Crop prices increased after Washington and Beijing last week struck a ‘Phase One’ […]

By Tom Polansek

Grain flow shifts from China trade war may last years, CHS says

Dec. 19, 2019 at 4:57 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — The U.S.-China trade war has accelerated Brazilian efforts to erode the United States’ share of the world soybean export market, and some of the shifts in global grain flows could last for years, according to executives at CHS Inc., the largest U.S. farmer co-operative. Even with […]

By Karl Plume P.J. Huffstutter

U.S. grains: Soy futures ease on rains in South American forecasts

Dec. 19, 2019 at 4:41 pm CST

Reuters — U.S. soybean futures edged lower on Thursday, retreating from a five-week high touched earlier this week as traders expected rains to benefit rival suppliers in South America. Favourable crop weather could boost production in Argentina and Brazil, increasing global supplies and competition for export sales to buyers like […]