Agricultural markets start the day under the influence of a more volatile external scenario, marked by rising oil prices, a strengthening dollar, and climatic uncertainties in strategic production regions. According to TF Agroeconômica, this environment has been supporting the prices of wheat, soybeans, and corn, although each product reacts to specific factors of the global and domestic market. In wheat, the advance in quotes in Chicago reflects concern over the conditions of winter crops in the United States, especially in the southern Great Plains, where the lack of moisture continues to reduce the productive potential. The expectation of rain in the coming days is not yet seen as sufficient to reverse the situation, while the smaller planted area in the country in more than a century reinforces uncertainty about the size of the crop. At the same time, the appreciation of the dollar against the euro limits broader gains by reducing the competitiveness of American exports. In ...