Tag: oilseed

• Thursday, October 12th 2023 - 07:44 UTC

  Brazil expanding its soy area but corn production is expected to fall as prices drop

  

  Brazilian farmers will have a record soy output in the new season as they are sowing the oilseed over a larger area, the government’s crop agency Conab said this week in the first forecast report for the 2023/24-grain cycle.

• Wednesday, July 26th 2023 - 10:03 UTC

  Brazil planning 390 million tons of grain and oilseed during the next decade

  

  While Argentina struggles to recover from decades of merciless populism, Brazil plans to produce 390 million tons of grain in the next decade, according to a study released on July 20 by the Ministry of Agriculture.

• Tuesday, August 31st 2021 - 09:08 UTC

  Brazil confident soybeans harvest will confirm it continues as the world's leader in the oilseed production

  

  Brazil's National Supply Company, Conab, anticipated forecasts for the coming grains and oilseeds season 2021/22. The soy crop is expected to reach some 141,26 million tons or a 3.9% increase over the current harvest.

• Thursday, December 24th 2020 - 08:30 UTC

  Two weeks of industrial action in Argentina's soy crushers and export ports

  

  Soymeal manufacturers in Argentina presented late on Tuesday a proposal aimed at ending a two-week strike by oil and port workers unions that has thrown a wrench in the flow of agricultural exports from one of the world’s main bread baskets.

• Thursday, December 10th 2020 - 09:09 UTC

  Argentine oilseed and grains exports stalled with new wage strike

  

  Argentine grains inspectors and oilseeds workers started a new wage strike on Wednesday, organizers said in a joint statement, as stalling contract negotiations threatened to interrupt exports from one of the world's main bread baskets.

• Tuesday, September 29th 2020 - 09:18 UTC

  Argentine cereal and oilseed exports stopped by grain inspectors' strike

  

  The labor union representing Argentine grains port workers said it would stage a 24-hour walk-off from midnight after failing to strike a deal on a collective work agreement with the business chamber that represents private port owners.

• Thursday, January 9th 2020 - 08:52 UTC

  Brazil anticipates record 2019/20 oilseed and grains crop: some 250 million tons

  

  Brazil's 2019-20 crop of grains and oilseeds is expected to reach a record of nearly 250 million metric tons, mainly driven by a sharp recovery in soybean production, even as inclement weather in southern regions of the country is raising concerns about the corn crop.