Brazil: Corn planting still behind schedule, but harvest should be a record

In Brazil, official data continue to show record yields, despite the delay in planting the second corn crop. In Argentina, new negative estimates led to a reduction in global production forecasts, which, it should be noted, did not fall further due to the larger harvest in Brazil and unchanged production in the United States. In this context, Cepea researchers indicate that, while producers are concentrated on field work, domestic consumers only buy new batches when there is a need to ...