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SASKATOON — Canadian wheat exporters are facing a new competitor in their second biggest market. “The rapid emergence of Brazil as an exporter in Indonesia and other foreign markets has been remarkable,” the U.S. Department of Agriculture said in its recent Grain: World Markets and Trade report. Indonesia bought 2.14 million tonnes of bulk wheat […] Read more
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Grain markets watch Brazilian weather
The weather outlook appears challenging for the world’s largest exporter of corn and soybeans, which has ramifications for the entire grains and oilseeds complex. It is already much drier than normal in central and northeastern Brazil and the forecast calls for more of the same. A probability forecast prepared by the Columbia Climate School International […] Read more
Brazilian farmers gather info at Sask. farm show
Ag in Motion attracts visitors from around the world who welcome the opportunity to see new farming techniques in action
LANGHAM, Sask. — Sam Abourjelly, a Lebanese-born man representing an Ontario company, spoke Spanish to a group of Brazilian farmers as they watched a rock pulverizing demonstration. It wasn’t their native Portuguese, but Abourjelly’s clear Spanish was good enough for them to understand and learn more about the technology available for Canadian farms. It was […] Read more
Brazil moves into top spot in world corn export market
Corn growers in the United States are not relinquishing their crown just yet. Brazil is taking over as the world’s top corn exporter in 2022-23 for only the second time in history. The previous year was 2012-13 when there was a severe drought in the U.S. Brazil’s exports in 2022-23 are estimated at 56 million […] Read more
Brazil moves into top spot in world corn export market
Corn growers in the United States are not relinquishing their crown just yet. Brazil is taking over as the world’s top corn exporter in 2022-23, for only the second time in history. The previous year was 2012-13 when there was a severe drought in the U.S. Brazil’s exports in 2022-23 are estimated at 56 million […] Read more
Argentine bean crop suffers amid fourth year of drought
Production losses could be severe for one of Canada’s main competitors as a lack of rain and potential frost risk threaten crops.
Brazil’s corn crop poised to drive down prices
Record soybean yields from the South American ag giant, along with banking and import woes, are rattling markets
This will be a momentous year in the corn market, says analyst Todd Hultman. Brazil is poised to export 53 million tonnes of the crop in 2022-23, compared to 45 million tonnes for the United States. “They are easily passing us on the export total, and that’s the first time in history we have seen […] Read more
Brazil’s bin-busting corn crop poised to drive down prices
This will be a momentous year in the corn market, says analyst Todd Hultman. Brazil is poised to export 53 million tonnes of the crop in 2022-23, compared to 45 million tonnes for the United States. “They are easily passing us on the export total, and that’s the first time in history we have seen […] Read more
Brazil soy planting begins in top grain state Mato Grosso
SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Planting of soybeans in the world’s largest producer kicked off in Brazil’s Mato Grosso state on irrigated areas while farmers wait for rains to expand sowing, according to agribusiness consultancy AgRural on Monday. A few plots, most of them irrigated, have also been sown with soy in Mato Grosso do Sul and São […] Read more
European supermarkets stop selling Brazil beef over deforestation links
SAO PAULO/AMSTERDAM, Dec 15 (Reuters) – Six European supermarket chains, including two owned by Dutch firm Ahold Delhaize and a Carrefour subsidiary, said on Wednesday they would stop selling some or all beef products from Brazil due to links with destruction of the Amazon rainforest. The pledges ranged from supermarket chain Lidl Netherlands, which committed […] Read more
