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Cotton Gin and Another Plane Crash
By Tyler Bruch
The planting season finished up for us around Dec. 28. This was 15-20 days later than what our planting objective was this year, but we had a late start...
Attach Cuts Brazil Soy Crop Estimate
Compiled by Greg Lamp
The U.S. agricultural attach in Brazil trimmed his estimate of that country's soybean crop to 60.1 million metric tons (mmt), from a November estimate...
Chicken Feed
By James Thompson
Livestock producers in the U.S. have pointed out that higher corn and soybean prices may be putting a squeeze on their profits. And they're not alone....
Brazil Rains Boost Soil Moisture
By Richard Brock
Heavy rains arrived over Brazil's southern and center-west soybean states over the weekend and should continue over the center-west into next week, independent forecaster Somar said on Monday...
Auto-Steer Wows Our Workers
By Tyler Bruch
It's been a particularly unusual start to this year's growing season for me and for many producers here in western Bahia. The rains that normally start...
Brazil Lowers Soy Forecast
Brazil's agriculture ministry now projects soybean production to fall below last year's level based on the potential for the La Nia weather phenomenon...
Brazil Agriculture Ministry Lowers Soy Forecast
Brazil’s agriculture ministry now projects that country’s soybean production to fall below last year’s level based on the potential for the La Nina weather phenomenon to cause adverse growing conditions in early 2008...
Jatropha: Brazil's Biodiesel Source?
By James Thompson
Around here, a Brazilian farmer once told me, you don't buy land you buy the rainfall. For a country with an excellent climate but generally poor soils,...
CHS Buys Brazil Farmland
CHS Inc., America's largest farmer cooperative based in Inver Grove Heights, MN, announces it has teamed with partners in Brazil and Japan to buy 385...
Bureaucracy Brazil-Style
By Tyler Bruch
Editor's Note: Next in a series from Iowa farmer Tyler Bruch whose family farms 32,000 acres in Bahia, Brazil. It's the middle of October and we still...
