Tag: soybean

• Thursday, June 23rd 2011 - 22:17 UTC

  In spite of Asian rust and GSS, Paraguay confirms record crop of soy beans

  

  In spite of bouts of Asian rust and the appearance of the ‘green stem syndrome’, GSS, Paraguay harvested a record 8.3 million tons of soy beans with a yield of 2.917 kilos per hectare and a 7.1% expansion of the area dedicated to the oilseed.

• Thursday, June 9th 2011 - 22:48 UTC

  Brazil crop of grains and oilseeds expected to reach a record 161.5 million tons

  

  Brazil’s 2010/2011 crop of grains and oilseeds is estimated to reach 161.5 million tons, up 8.2% (8.2 million tons) over the previous farm year (149.2 million tons), according to the latest survey from the National Supplies Corporation, Conab.

• Thursday, June 9th 2011 - 22:41 UTC

  Brazil’s world’s leading chicken exporter in 2011, ahead of the United States

  

  Brazil is poised to overtake the United States for the first time ever, as the world’s leading exporter of chicken, with a third of global trade, according to the latest statistics from FAO released this week.

• Thursday, June 2nd 2011 - 09:36 UTC

  Argentina’s second biggest soybean producer expands in Brazil; plans shares sale

  

  Argentina’s second- biggest soybean producer Los Grobo, plans to transfer some assets to a new company and sell shares of the business in an initial public offering in Brazil.

• Wednesday, May 11th 2011 - 01:30 UTC

  Brazil expects a new record crop totalling 158.7 million tons

  

  Brazil will harvest this year a record crop of 158.7 million tons, 6% higher than last year’s 149.7 million tons, according to the latest release from the country’s Geography and Statistics Institute, IBGE.

• Tuesday, May 10th 2011 - 22:45 UTC

  Good soybean crop prospects in Brazil and Argentina, could total 123 million tons

  

  Soybean crop prospects in Brazil and Argentina, the second- and third-biggest exporters of the oilseed behind the U.S., have improved, researcher Oil World said in a report Tuesday. Growers in Brazil will produce 73 million metric tons of soybeans, up from a record 68.7 million tons a year ago, and farmers in Argentina will harvest 49.5 million tons, up 1% from a prior estimate.

• Saturday, May 7th 2011 - 04:50 UTC

  Soybean and by products represent 25% of Argentine exports

  

  Argentine overseas sales of soybeans and by products reached 17.3 billion US dollars in 2010, equivalent to 25.4% of total exports, according to the latest report from the country’s statistics office INDEC. In 2009 the soy complex exports represented 23.3%.

• Tuesday, April 26th 2011 - 16:10 UTC

  Paraguay has over a million hectares planted with corn

  

  Paraguay is experiencing a boom in corn with an area planted of over a million hectares compared to 600.000 hectares a year ago, according to the country’s Soybean Farmers’ Association president agronomist Francisco Regis Mereles.

• Monday, April 11th 2011 - 19:49 UTC

  China plans to invest 10 billion USD in soy production and processing in Brazil

  

  China plans to invest ten billion US dollars in the production, storage and transport of soybeans in Brazil to ensure the supply of the commodity of which it is the world’s main importer, according to press reports in Beijing.

• Monday, April 4th 2011 - 06:44 UTC

  Paraguay’s 2010/11 soy bean crop could reach 8.4 million tons

  

  Paraguay’s 2010/11 soy bean crop covers 2.830.000 hectares (twice the area ten years ago) and the expected yield is between 2.900 and 3.100 kilos per hectare according to the latest satellite pictures in hands of the Paraguayan Chamber of Grains and Oilseed Exporters, Capeco.
  So far the record yield dates back to 2003 with a national average of 2.915 kilos.