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Brazilian Farmers Expected to Plant Record Soybean Next Year
USAgNet - 08/20/2018
Brazilian farmers are expected to plant a record amount of soybean acres this coming season, encouraged by strong demand from China, and yield a record harvest next year, consultancy Celeres said on Tuesday in its first forecast for the new cycle. Reuters
reports that the next crop cycle in Brazil, the world's No. 1 soybean exporter, begins in September.
"The area expansion would be even bigger had it not been for competition from the first crop of corn, risks related to the exchange rate and higher logistics and farm inputs costs," Celeres said.
The previous area record was set in the 2017/18 cycle at 35.1 million hectares, according to government data.
Chinese demand, together with a weak local currency and exceptionally high port premiums, are expected to keep internal supplies tight and internal prices high despite another bumper crop, Celeres added.
Brazil's acreage of so-called first corn - which is planted in the Southern Hemisphere's summer and competes with soy for area - is likely to soar 7 percent to 5.8 million hectares next season due to strong internal prices. That growth, Celeres said, will be driven
mainly by farmers in the south of Brazil, where demand for first corn tends to be stronger in the first half of the year.
Brazil's first corn is estimated to total 30.29 million tonnes, more than 9 percent above the previous season, the consultancy's data showed.
Brazil's 2018/19 second corn crop, which will be planted after soy and grows into the Southern Hemisphere winter, is projected to rise 31 percent from the prior season to 73.82 million tonnes. The strong year-on-year comparison is due in part to a drought
damaging the second corn crop last season, reports Reuters.
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