Insights and Stories on Brazil

U.S. grains: StatsCan data help drag wheat to contract lows

Dec. 7, 2017 at 3:33 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Board of Trade wheat futures slid to contract lows on Thursday, their fourth straight day of declines, on continued pressure from a Canadian report that showed harvest in that country was bigger than expected. The decline in wheat weighed on corn prices. Soybeans also fell, […]

Brazil: Farming on a larger scale

Dec. 4, 2017 at 12:42 pm CST

By Toban Dyck

Brazil pushes back decision on Bayer-Monsanto tie-up

Nov. 22, 2017 at 7:21 pm CST

By Ana Mano

Russia to restrict Brazilian pork, beef imports from Dec. 1

Nov. 20, 2017 at 4:01 pm CST

By Mateus Maia Polina Devitt

U.S. grains: Corn sinks to contract lows

Nov. 16, 2017 at 6:53 pm CST

By Karl Plume

CBOT weekly outlook: Corn and soybeans down after USDA report

Nov. 9, 2017 at 3:43 pm CST

CNS Canada – Corn and soybean futures at the Chicago Board of Trade fell following the United States Department of Agriculture’s crop production report which raised corn estimates and kept soybeans at previous estimates. “I expect the low volatility environment to continue with soybeans remaining in tight trading short term. […]

By Ashley Robinson - MarketsFarm

Brazil cuts into U.S. soybean market share in China

Nov. 3, 2017 at 3:27 pm CDT

Reuters – Brazil is expected to win a larger share of China’s soybean imports in coming months, hitting U.S. exporters during the peak marketing season for their most valuable farm product as the world grapples with a fifth consecutive bumper crop. China is expected to buy about five million tonnes […]

By Naveen Thukral

U.S. grains: Soybeans retreat on Brazil rains, technical selling

Oct. 30, 2017 at 4:20 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. soybean futures turned lower on Monday on forecasts for crop-boosting rains in some areas of Brazil and as technical selling and month-end positioning weighed on the market. Corn was narrowly mixed and wheat futures fell for a fourth straight session, with some wheat contract months […]

By Karl Plume

Brazil court unfreezes JBS owners’ assets

Oct. 19, 2017 at 5:37 pm CDT

Brasilia | Reuters –– A Brazilian federal appeals court on Thursday granted an injunction releasing assets belonging to the Batista brothers, owners of the world’s largest meatpacker JBS SA, Ticiano Figueiredo, a lawyer representing the defendants, said. A spokeswoman at the appeals court did not immediately reply to a request […]

By Reuters

CBOT weekly outlook: Corn, soy steady as attention turns to South America

Oct. 18, 2017 at 8:44 pm CDT

CNS Canada — Soybean and corn futures at the Chicago Board of Trade are both keeping rangebound as attention shifts from last week’s U.S. Department of Agriculture supply/demand report to South American growing conditions. During the week ended Wednesday the December corn contract rose 2.5 cents, to $3.485 per bushel […]