Brazil to Register Record Grain Production Year Despite Drought
By Lise Alves, Senior Contributing Reporter SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL – Brazil should register a record crop harvest in 2015, according to the IBGE (Brazilian Statistics Bureau), despite the severe drought...
View ArticleBrazil to Improve Ports to Transport Record Grain Harvest
By Lise Alves, Senior Contributing Reporter SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL – Brazil’s government announced measures to assist the transport of what is expected to be a record grain harvest in the country in the...
View ArticleBrazil Expected to Register Record Grain Production
By Lise Alves, Senior Contributing Reporter SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL – Brazil’s National Supply Company (CONAB) released a grain production estimate on Tuesday, May 12th, showing that the production of grains...
View ArticleCoffee Producers in Brazil Forecast Record Harvest For 2016
By Lise Alves, Senior Contributing Reporter SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL – Coffee growers in Brazil are gearing up to what promises to be the second best harvest in history, with forecasts for the 2016 Brazilian...
View ArticleBrazil Estimates Largest Agricultural Production Ever in 2017
By Lise Alves, Senior Contributing Reporter SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL – Brazil may register the largest agricultural production in its history in 2017, according to data by the Brazil’s National Supply Company...
View ArticleRio Mayor Unveils Plan to Modernize Cobal in Leblon and Humaitá
By Nelson Belen, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – On Tuesday, February 19th, Rio Mayor Marcelo Crivella unveiled a new plan to revitalize and modernize the two large food markets, Cobal...
View ArticleBrazil’s alarmingly slow planting pace raises flags for second corn crop
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Yield risks arise whenever Brazil’s heavily exported second corn crop is planted late, but this year the delays are the worst in a decade, and the pressure for favorable...
View ArticleBrazil’s suffers fourth consecutive month of downward revisions to 2021 crop...
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – The 2021 agricultural harvest is expected to be 256.1 million tons, up 0.8% from the 2020 result, or 1.9 million tons more. The data come from the July systematic survey of...
View ArticleBrazilian agricultural production should grow 12.5% this harvest
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Brazil is expected to produce a total volume of 284.4 million tons of grains in the 2021/2022 harvest, an increase of 12.5%, or 32 million tons, over last year’s crop. The...
View ArticleCoffee stocks in Brazil down 16% – slump in arabica production
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – According to a report released last Wednesday (8) by Brazil’s Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), coffee stocks in Brazil have fallen 16% by December 31, 2021....
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