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...

Brazil Soy Planting Accelerates 

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 

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...

Cashing In On Cane 

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...

Bean Acreage Increase? 

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...

Big Jump In Our Acreage 

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 

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 

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 

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 

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...