Brazil increases cultivation area and expects record grain harvest in 2014

Thursday, June 12th 2014 - 06:30 UTC

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Brazil, one of the world's leading agricultural producers, expects a record grain harvest this year of 192.3 million tons, up 2.2% from 2013, the IBGE statistics agency said this week. Read full article

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ChrisR
So how long will the trucks queues be this year with the increase in production.

Last year worked out to 2.6 miles if my memory is correct.

Still they will have watched the WC by then.
Jun 12th, 2014 - 09:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Brasileiro
Five new ports into operation this year (2013/2014). There were no queues truck, only queues of buyers.
Jun 12th, 2014 - 10:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Tik Tok
#2 - while five new ports is better than none Brazil still needs many more ports. Infrastructure is woeful in Brazil.
Jun 13th, 2014 - 01:00 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Boovis
They couldn't even grow grass on the football pitch at Manaus and are now spraying it green for the tv cameras, will they spray the wheat yellow to pretend the yield has doubled? “BRICS countries deserve more say in the world”, when you behave like an organised society maybe the rest of the world will listen to you, the other one has bells on it.
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