Dan Piller -DesMoines Register, 04/11/2012
While much attention has focused on Brazil’s drought and heat-related problems with its soybean crop, the South American nation is expected to see a 13 percent increase in its winter corn crop to about 2.5 million bushels.
That would be in contrast to the woes of Brazil’s soybeans, which are expected to come in 13 percent lower. Brazil’s agricultural reporting service, Conab, said “favorable weather in central-western states such as Mato Grosso should allow for growers to make the most out of record planting.”
By contrast, the soybean-intensive states of Rio Grande do Sul and Parana were hit harder by the heat and drought during the recent South American summer and soybeans suffered accordingly.
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