Brazil Yields At Record Highs 

COMPILED BY SHERRY COLLINS

USDA has estimated Brazil's soybean crop at a record 51 million tons, up 17.5 million from last year's harvest. The rainfall pattern from November to...

Meeting In The Strangest Places 

Greg Lamp EDITOR glamp@primediabusiness.com

What are you doing here? No, what are you doing here? That's likely what you hear when two people run into each other at some unusual, remote place. Try...

Brazil: Is The Threat For Real? 

BY RICHARD BROCK

I just returned from a 12-day trip to Brazil. I wanted to see first-hand whether everything I've heard about Brazil was truth or fiction. As you might...

More Biotech Beans In Southern Brazil 

BY JAMES THOMPSON

The agronomist on the other end of the line laughed aloud. Paid extra for non-GM soybeans? he asked, incredulous. Tell me who's paying, because we'll...

Brazil's Biotech Challenges 

BY JAMES THOMPSON

A lot of producers American and Brazilian have aerial photos of their farms on their office walls. It's a different perspective on the familiar ground...

South American Production Rises 

COMPILED BY SHERRY COLLINS

Brazil and Argentina will produce about 3 billion bushels of soybeans in 2003, according to USDA's revised forecast. Brazilian plantings are expected...

Argentina's Acreage Closes In On Brazil's 

BY JAMES THOMPSON

Mounds of lime lie ready at the edges of prepared fields along rural roadways in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais. Farmers are just finishing planting...

Politics Takes A Real Kick 

BY JAMES THOMPSON

Brazil, as a country, faces a number of tough choices this year. Many of those choices will affect farmers across the Americas. For one, this is an election...

S.A. Bumps U.S. 

COMPILED BY GREG LAMP

If reports are accurate, South American soybean production will exceed the U.S. in the 2002-03 crop year for the first time. Production in Brazil and...

Moving Ford-ward 

by Brad Frisvold

In the late 1980s, if a discussion revolved around and , the likely topic would have started with the letter for soccer. But to Dwain Ford, the 2002-03...