Ready To PlantIn November 

By Tyler Bruch

Editor's Note: Next in a series from Iowa farmer Tyler Bruch whose family farms 10,500 acres in Bahia, Brazil. It has remained hot and dry here in Western...

Brazil Props Up Soy Prices 

By James Thompson

Roberto Tardivo says he'll keep those last 250-or-so acres of soybeans he still grows, but you get the idea their days are numbered. He and his neighbors...

Learning Fast In Brazil 

By Tyler Bruch

Editor's Note: This is the first in a series from Iowan Tyler Bruch whose family farms 10,500 acres in Bahia, Brazil. In 1844 my great, great, great,...

Signs of smaller Brazilian bean crop surface 

James Thompson

Reduced fertilizer purchases may lead to a smaller ‘07 Brazilian bean crop....

Market News 

By Richard Brock

Aid Offer Doesn't Stop Brazil Protests
Protests by Brazilian soy producers have entered a fourth week...

The Brazilian Farmland Report 

Count To 10 Before You Buy The Brazilian Farmland Report (BFR) visited with farmland Brazil real estate agent Demetre Calimeris to gain insight into the...

The Bin Is Half Empty 

By James Thompson

Or is it half full? That will depend on the way you look at it, of course. Brazil is a nation as large as our 48 contiguous states, a continent-sized...

Market News 

Richard Brock

Brazil Soy Harvest Said 5% Done
Producers in Brazil had harvested 5% of an expected record soybean crop by Feb. 10...

Market News 

Richard Brock

Brazil Soy Crop Pegged At 58.2 MMT
Brazil’s 2005-06 soybean crop is now estimated at 58.2 million metric tons...

Blame Beans? 

By James Thompson

Are soybeans destroying the Amazon? Well, no. Okay, yes. Sort of. Indirectly. It depends on who you listen to. Soybean prices, even when they're good,...