Record productivity of 1,931 kg/ha of processed cotton in Brazil
Delay in planting sunflower and corn due to drought in the Province of Santa Fé. The Santa Fé Stock Exchange reported that 58% of the estimated sunflower was planted. In the case of corn, 23,750 hectares of the planned 95 thousand hectares were planted. “The sunflower and early corn planting process was completely paralyzed due to little or no water availability…”, according to the Stock Exchange report. (BCSF)
A report from the Rosario Stock Exchange highlights that bad weather conditions in Argentina at the time of planting will result in another year with a decline in the planted area, reaching 5.4 million hectares, the smallest in 8 years. In 2022 the planted area was 5.9 million hectares. (BCR)
SLC Agrícola reported it estimates it will sow 674 thousand hectares in the 2023/24 harvest. The total is greater than the entire area sown with soybeans in the last harvest in Sorriso, State of Mato Grosso, the ranked #1 city that grows soybean in Brazil. (SLC Agrícola)
Total cases of highly pathogenic avian influenza reached 115, three of which were subsistence birds. The most recent case of the disease occurred in Rio Grande, State of Rio Grande do Sul, in a Patagonian sea lion (Otaria flavescens). (MAP)
October will have below-average rainfall in the center north of the country. Due to the influence of El Niño, there will be below-average rainfall in agricultural production areas in the States of Maranhão, Tocantins, Piauí, and Bahia. (Inmet)
Brazilian exports of fresh peanuts grew 360% in the last ten years. From 2019 to 2022, the increase was 40%. (Abicab)
Banco da China Brasil announced on 10/03 the first complete transaction between a Brazilian company and a Chinese company using only BRL currency and yuan was completed. The transaction occurred due to the shipment of cellulose from the company Eldorado Brasil, which sent 43 containers to the Asian country. (Eldorado Brasil; Banco da China Brasil)
Exports of fresh beef increased, totaling approximately 200 thousand tonnes in September. According to CEPEA, this increase combined with the reduction in the supply of animals for slaughter is helping to recover the prices of live cattle, which increased by 18.2%, ending the month at U$ 45.67 per arroba (15kg) in the State of São Paulo. (CEPEA)
Vegetable production is affected by high temperatures. In order to mitigate climate effects, the Comprehensive Technical Assistance Coordination (CATI), is promoting in the region of Mogi das Cruzes, considered the Green Belt of the Metropolitan Region of São Paulo, new production techniques such as the use of bio-inputs and the introduction of the Direct Planting System in Vegetables, which “consists of covering the soil, creating protection for the growth of the plant and conserving moisture,” explains David Rodrigues, Rural extensionist at CATI Regional Mogi das Cruzes. (SAA)
Cotton has an increase of 26.5% in harvested compared to the 2021/22 season. According to Alexandre Schenkel, president of the Brazilian Association of Cotton Producers, the increase in production reflects the 4.6% increase in the planted area and the record productivity of 1,931 kg/ha of processed cotton. (Abrapa)
Copercampos invested US$ 2.1 million in expanding its unit located in Campos Novos, State of Santa Catarina. (Copercampos)
Minister of Finance, Ricardo Bonilla, requested to the National Federation of Coffee Growers – FNC to initiate a restructuring process, with the aim of helping the country’s coffee growers, amid the crisis that the market is currently going through. “What more should we ask for? We want austerity from the FNC. The Federation has facilities in New York and Tokyo, which are very expensive, underutilized…” Bonilla said. “I believe that it is necessary to sell these assets and that this can increase resources, but it is also time for the FNC to streamline itself administratively and do away with some international positions, which no longer need to exist”, according to the minister. (Ministry of Finance)
Nicolás Pérez Marulanda, executive president of Fedepalma, said that Colombia can export biofuel for aircraft, produced from palm trees. (Fedepalma)
According to the Institute of Hydrology, Meteorology, and Environmental Studies, it is expected El Niño will reduce rainfall by up to 30% in Colombia. (Idea)
National Institute of Agricultural Research of Ecuador is carrying out trials with the Formosana 218 banana variety, tolerant to Fusarium race 4 in the provinces of Los Ríos and Santa Elena. The disease threatens the Cavendish variety, the main banana variety produced and exported in Ecuador, putting the country’s second main non-oil and non-mining export product at risk. (Iniap)
Record of corn imports during the 2022/23 harvest reached 18 million tonnes, even after the decree restricting external purchases of transgenic corn and the 50% tariff on white corn imports. (USDA)
First case of H5N1 bird flu is confirmed in Mexico by the Animal Safety Agency of the Ministry of Agriculture. The disease was detected in a wild bird in the state of Jalisco, shortly after the country’s poultry farms were considered free of the virus. (Senasica)
Minister of Agriculture, Fernando Mattos, was elected president of the Inter-American Board of Agriculture, of the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture. (IICA)
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