Bureaucracy Brazil-Style
Nov 1, 2007, 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...
Brazil Soy Planting Accelerates
Oct 30, 2007, By Richard Brock
Soybean planting activity accelerated last week in Brazil after widespread rains ended a severe dry spell across the central-west growing belt, while in Argentina, producers continued to make good early planting progress...
Analyst: Brazil Soy Planting Behind
Oct 9, 2007, By Richard Brock
Brazilian soybean producers have begun to plant what is expected to be a record 2007-2008 crop, but dry weather has slowed the early planting campaign in the center-west soybean belt, private analysts Celeres said Monday...
Bean Acreage Increase?
Oct 1, 2007, By Tyler Bruch
Editor's Note: Next in a series from Iowa farmer Tyler Bruch whose family farms 32,000 acres in Bahia, Brazil. As harvest winds down in the U.S., we have...
Cashing In On Cane
Oct 1, 2007, By James Thompson
Egton de Paiva Oliveira wants to get back to working some cattle. After all, the ethanol boom that's driven the value of his land sky-high may not last...
Big Jump In Our Acreage
Sep 1, 2007, By Tyler Bruch
The last time I wrote about Brazil was nearly five months ago, and a lot has changed and happened since then. Soybean harvest here finished up around the end of April; we had perfect weather at harvesttime, and only a few days of rain kept us out of the field...
New Friends, New Fuel
Sep 1, 2007, By James Thompson
The food vs. fuel game has everyone dashing to take sides. On the pro-ethanol side, there's George Bush and Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, saying ethanol is a way to reduce dependence on foreign oil...
Each Day Brings Surprises
Apr 1, 2007, By Tyler Bruch
Farming in Brazil has many parallels to Midwestern farming, and just as many differences. Our harvest season started Feb. 28 ...
Young Gun
Apr 1, 2007, By Greg Lamp
Had Tyler Bruch been born in the mid-1800s, he'd surely have been one of the Go West, Young Man frontiersmen. Instead, he's fallen into the elite Go South...
Triple Production In Cerrado
Mar 15, 2007, By James Thompson
The Ministry of Agriculture confirms that we can triple (grain and oilseed) production without knocking down one more tree, said Marina Silva...
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