SAO PAULO, April 23 (Reuters) – A Brazilian grain growers association has launched a hotline to encourage farmers to report practices on the part of Germany’s Bayer SA that potentially could be anti-competitive, according to statement sent to Reuters on Tuesday. Aprosoja Brasil, which called the initiative “an awareness campaign,” aims to galvanize farmers to […] Read more
Stories by Ana Mano
Chinese demand pushes Arlon’s Brazil freight unit grain shipments 18%
SAO PAULO – Freight company Sotran SA Logistica e Transporte, a unit of U.S.-based Arlon Group in Brazil, expects its grain shipments to rise 18 percent this year due to Chinese demand for Brazilian soybeans and a strong dollar, an executive said. A trade spat between the United States and China supported demand for grain […] Read more
Brazil land costs hurt soy expansion as focus shifts to yields
VERA, Brazil (Reuters) – Brazilian farmers looking to expand soybean acreage next season to meet strong Chinese appetite will have to weigh rising land costs in farm country, growers and analysts said on a crop tour of fields in Mato Grosso. Producers in the country’s No.1 grain state may prefer to spend the returns from […] Read more
Brazil’s bartering farmers raise risks for Canada’s Nutrien
WINNIPEG, Manitoba/SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Taking a page from its aggressive growth strategy in the United States, cash-rich Canadian fertilizer giant Nutrien Ltd. plans to plow investment into Brazil in a bid to reap up to 30 percent of farm supply sales in fertile pockets of the country. But business in Brazil’s farm sector – […] Read more
Brazil’s early soy harvesting hampered by rains – forecaster
SAO PAULO (Reuters) – A cold front which is prompting rains in the southeast and centre-west of Brazil may delay early soy harvesting work in the leading grain producing state of Mato Grosso, weather forecaster Marco Antonio dos Santos said in a Monday report. Rains should continue throughout the week in the centre of the […] Read more
Brazil farmers run out of space as bumper crops pile up
SORRISO, Brazil, Aug 17 (Reuters) – At a warehouse in the heart of Brazil’s agriculture sector, farmer Rafael Bilibio watches truck after truck line up to unload corn onto the ground outside the huge storage bins. His own corn, ready for unloading from a 50-tonne truck that has just pulled in, is destined to join […] Read more
