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Grains Apr, 08, 2019 0

Brazil’s low soybean exports cause corn storage concerns

A fall in port premiums has led Brazil’s soybean farmers to practically hoard their harvest, raising the fear of a storage shortage for the country’s coming winter corn. Soybean premiums…
Grains Apr, 03, 2019 0

Brazil’s port operators seek lower Panama Canal fees

Brazil’s private port operators association, ATP, have developed a proposal to be presented at a conference in Panama City tomorrow, for using the idle capacity of the old Panama Canal…
TecPlata Terminal Inaugural Vessel Jacaranda
Grains Apr, 03, 2019 0

TecPlata Terminal receives its first vessel – Jacaranda

TecPlata Container Terminal celebrated the terminal’s inaugural vessel call by LogIn vessel Jacaranda yesterday. Login will call at Tecplata as part of its current bi-weekly South Atlantic service, according to…
Grains Apr, 03, 2019 0

Brazil’s soybean exports may fall by up to 24% if US-China trade war ends

Brazilian agricultural consultancy ARC Mercosul estimates Brazil’s soybean exports may fall by as much as 24% year-on-year to only 64m tons in the 2018/19 season if the China US trade…
wheat harvest
Grains Mar, 29, 2019 0

Paraguay’s wheat exports rise 632% in the 2018/19 season

The Paraguayan Grains and Oilseed Traders Association (Capeco) announced Paraguay’s wheat exports rose by a massive 632% to 328,924 tons between August 2018 and February 2019, up from 44,901 tons…
Complex of soy and second corn storehouses and processing plants in Lucas Rio Verde - Mato Grosso
Grains Mar, 28, 2019 0

Good weather boosts Brazil’s second corn crop

According to a Reuters poll, favorable weather and a larger planted area will significantly increase Brazil’s second corn crop in the 2018/19 crop year. Based on the average estimate of…
Soybean harvest
Grains Mar, 27, 2019 0

Argentine soybean farmers hold off deals waiting for trade war’s end

Soybean farmers from Argentina are delaying futures contracts this season as they wait for more certainty regarding prices. By early March, the country had only sold 16.2% of this season’s…
Grains Mar, 21, 2019 0

Bolsonaro grants 750,000 ton wheat quota to the US

Brazil decided to follow through on a 24-year-old promise as Bolsonaro offered a 750,000 ton tariff-free wheat quota to the US this week. In 1994 Brazil agreed to set up…
Grains Mar, 20, 2019 0

Brazil’s soybean exports forecast to fall 17% in 2019

In spite of a strong start to the year, agriculture consultancy firm, Safras & Mercado, announced an estimated 17% drop in Brazil’s soybean exports this year, compared to 2018. The…
soybean exports Argentina Brazil
Grains Mar, 18, 2019 0

56 vessels carrying soy beans left Brazil in the first 10 days of March, with 33 destined for China, according to Datamar’s new DataLiner for Bulk Cargoes dashboard-based product

Datamar’s new dashboard product shows that over 3m tons of soy were exported from Brazilian ports from 1st to 10th of March this year. That cargo is still on the…