Brazil’s soybean harvest is off to a slow start

Brazil’s soybean harvest is off to a slow start

Brazil’s soybean harvest is off to a slower start than last year.

“In Brazil, the soybeans

are 1.8 percent harvested–last year, it was six percent–so it’s off to a slow

start,” says grain marketing consultant Dr. Michael Cordonnier, president of

Illinois-based Soybean & Corn Advisor.

Cordonnier, who

keeps close tabs on the South American corn and soybean crops, is still

predicting a record Brazilian soybean crop. But he says a late soybean harvest

could impact the size of that country’s second crop of corn—the safrinha crop.

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