CBOT To Launch Brazil Soy Contracts 

Compiled By Greg Lamp

The Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) plans to launch Brazilian soybean and soymeal contracts in May. According to The Brock Report, the move is being made...

MINNESOTANS WIN BRAZIL TRIP 

Congratulations to Willard (Paul) Thronson of Elbow Lake, MN, and wife Judy who are on their way to Brazil as winners of the Trendspotting Farm Tour to...

Brock Online Notes 

Asian Rust On Move In Brazil
Asian soy rust has spread to 51 districts in eight Brazilian states, the government crop research bureau Embrapa reported last week. ...

Brock Online Notes 

Brazil Soy Planting Winding Down
Soybean planting activity is now winding down in Brazil after favorable weather allowed producers to make good progress last week. ...

Ethanol's Booming In Brazil 

By James Thompson

Back in the 1970s, when OPEC shut off the spigot, Brazil invested heavily in alcohol to replace gasoline. The U.S. did not. It may be time to rethink...

Brazil to continue taking U.S. market share 

Paul L. Hollis, Farm Press

Brazilian agriculture has several cost advantages over the U.S., beginning with land, says Mark Waller, agricultural economist with Texas A&M University. ...

Brock Online Notes 

Brazil Pegs Soy Crop Near 60 MMT
Brazil’s Agriculture Ministry issued its first official estimate of that country’s next soybean crop last week, pegging production at a record 59.5-60.8 million metric tons. ...

Brazil's Future In Ag 

By Alan Kluis

The future remains bright for Brazilian agriculture. Brazilian farmers have been fast to adopt new technology and continue to improve both crop and livestock...

KNOW YOUR COMPETITION 

By Alan Kluis

Brazil, known for its huge increase in soybean production in the last decade, is now our main competitor in the global meat export market. In the last...

Brazil Bets on China 

By James Thompson

Napoleon supposedly once said, China is a sleeping giant, and when it awakens the world will tremble. If the world didn't tremble early this summer as...