Brazil's 2025 row crop production outlook is bright

As the soybean and first crop corn planting programs wind down in Brazil under generally favourable seeding and plant establishment conditions, the 2024/25 season production outlook is pointing toward a huge harvest in 2025, with record soybean output looking a good bet at this early stage of the season. Rainfall over the first week of December favoured the central and south-central regions, reversing a dryer pattern that had set up late in November, with more intense falls rolling into southern Brazil late that week. Last week saw widespread rain across much of the country with heavier registrations in southern Brazil, largely eliminating lingering dry pockets. The only regional concerns for dryness in Brazil, albeit minor at this stage of the season, are in western Paraná, southern Mato Grosso do Sul, western Santa Catarina, and parts of Rio Grande do Sul. Most of those areas received welcomed rain over the past week, and there is more rain in the forecast. The soybeans in these ...