Crop Protection and Nutrition – Weekly Update Brazil & Latin America (09/17/26 – 09/23/26)

Aegro Insights, a market intelligence platform, reported opposite fertilizer price trends. Granular monoammonium phosphate rose 9.3% to approximately US$ 1,026/tonne as of September 10^th, increasing costs for the 2026/27 soybean crop, while urea fell 8.7% to approximately US$ 665/tonne. Lower urea prices could favor advance purchases for the 2027 second corn crop. (Aegro Insights)

MAPA revoked precautionary suspensions and reinstated 15 registrations, predominantly technical products based on glyphosate and 2,4-D. (Official Gazette of Brazil, Act No. 57 of September 15^th, 2026 – published on September 17^th, MAPA)

MAPA granted 50 formulated pesticide registrations, including chemical and biological products. (Official Gazette of Brazil, Act No. 58 of September 15^th, 2026 – published on September 17^th, MAPA)

MAPA canceled the registration of Syngenta’s ENGEO PLENO (registration No. 06105), a mixture of thiamethoxam and lambda-cyhalothrin. Syngenta’s request to replace the cancellation penalty with a fine and a Conduct Adjustment Agreement – TAC was rejected. Production, imports, exports, commercialization and distribution are prohibited, while previously marketed products may be used until their expiration date. (Official Gazette of Brazil, Act No. 59 of September 17^th, 2026 – published on September 18^th, MAPA; CERDA)

MAPA authorized overseas travel for Angelica Polenz Wielewicki, head of the Regional Division for Registration of Biological Products, and Tatiane Almeida do Nascimento, coordinator for Pesticide and Phytosanitary Bioinput Registration. Wielewicki will represent MAPA at the FAO Working Group on Biopesticide Registration in Rome from September 20^th to 25^th, with costs covered by FAO. Tatiane will take part in a mission in Copenhagen, Denmark, the 2026 Annual Biocontrol Industry Meeting – ABIM 2026 in Basel, Switzerland and a visit to Biobest production facilities in Westerlo, Belgium, from October 14^th to 25^th. (Official Gazette of Brazil, authorizations dated September 16^th and 17^th, 2026, MAPA)

FMC and AgroSpheres have advanced two RNA-based bioinsecticide candidates to field trials in Brazil, the USA and Asia. The technologies target major lepidopteran pests, including fall armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda). According to the companies, the main target pests are associated with nearly US$ 14 billion annually in crop losses and control costs. (FMC; AgroSpheres)

Anvisa rejected a toxicological evaluation request of a post-registration of Bacillus velezensis, from Total Biotecnologia. (Official Gazette of Brazil, Resolution-RE No. 3677 of September 17th, 2026 – published on September 21st, Anvisa)

Anvisa approved, in compliance with court decisions, toxicological evaluations of a clethodim formulated product from Biorisk and an equivalent technical product of cloransulam-methyl from CHDS do Brasil. (Official Gazette of Brazil, Resolutions-RE No. 3678 and No. 3679 of September 17th, 2026 – published on September 21st, Anvisa)

Soybean production costs for the 2026/27 crop in the State of Mato Grosso are expected to increase, with pesticide costs up nearly 11% and fertilizers and soil amendments up 5.4%. Total costs are projected at approximately US$ 1,586/ha (+16.7%), while farmers are already reducing phosphorus and potassium rates. (Aprosoja MT; Senar-MT; Imea)

EuroChem will temporarily reduce operations at the Serra do Salitre complex in the State of Minas Gerais and suspend the contracts of approximately 450 workers starting in October. According to the Metabase union, the company attributed the measure to the global crisis and the effects of the war on logistics and sulfur supply, a raw material used to produce sulfuric acid for fertilizers. (Metabase)

Embrapa identified Sulfonylurea-Tolerant Soybean – STS technology in 62 of 423 soybean cultivars evaluated between 2021 and 2026, equivalent to approximately 15%. The technology expands herbicide options for hard-to-control weeds and reduces exclusive reliance on glyphosate. Monitoring will be updated annually. (Embrapa)

The cotton sanitary fallow period in the State of Minas Gerais began on September 20^th and runs through November 20^th, when farmers must eliminate living cotton plants to interrupt the boll weevil (Anthonomus grandis) life cycle. In irrigated areas below 600 meters in altitude, the fallow period runs from October 30^th to December 30^th. (Amipa; IMA)

Fertilizers are expected to account for 56.5% of total input costs for seed, crop protection products and fertilizers for the 2027 second corn crop in the State of Paraná, up from 51.5% in 2025/26, according to Agrinvest Commodities, an agricultural commodities brokerage and market intelligence company. Urea is quoted at US$ 490–500/tonne CFR, exceeding US$ 550/tonne at ports and US$ 600/tonne in some inland regions. (Agrinvest Commodities)

MAPA extended the risk-management measures established by Act No. 71/2022 to products and registration submissions containing imidacloprid, in compliance with a court ruling. Depending on the case, the measures include restrictions on rates and application methods and no-spray zones. (Official Gazette of Brazil, Act No. 56 of September 15^th, 2026 – published on September 17^th, MAPA)

Law No. 15506/2026 established the National Policy for Critical and Strategic Minerals, in alignment with the National Fertilizer Plan. Phosphate, potash and nitrogen fertilizer production projects are eligible for tax credits of up to 20% of eligible expenditures. Credits will be awarded through a competitive procedure, with an aggregate limit of approximately US$ 194 million per year from 2030 to 2034. (Official Gazette of Brazil, Law No. 15506 – published on September 16^th, Presidency of the Republic)

Brazil and OCP Nutricrops signed a memorandum establishing 3.8 million tonnes of phosphate fertilizers as a reference volume for 2026–2027. The agreement also covers cooperation in plant nutrition, soil health, research, knowledge sharing and technical exchanges across the fertilizer value chain. (OCP Nutricrops; MAPA)

On September 18^th MAPA updated the list of secondary materials authorized for commercialization in the fertilizer sector, including sulfur paste from Raízen-Geo Biogás Costa Pinto. Recent authorizations on the list also include biomass ash, yeast extract and digestate. (MAPA)

The National Technical Biosafety Commission granted Bioma Indústria, Comércio e Distribuição Biosafety Quality Certificate No. 714/26 for industrial production using genetically modified microorganisms at its facility in Fazenda Rio Grande, State of Paraná. The authorization covers industrial NB-1 containment activities with Pseudomonas putida KT2440, Pseudomonas fluorescens, Bacillus subtilis and Escherichia coli strains. (CTNBio)

A project in the State of Minas Gerais expanded the use of a calcium and magnesium silicate-based soil amendment, an alternative to limestone for soil acidity correction, across 6.72 K hectares and more than 60 crops. It reached 2.05 K farmers in 103 municipalities, 81% of them family farmers, with application rates based on soil analysis and technical recommendations. (Agronelli; Emater-MG)

Attorney Lidia Cristina Jorge dos Santos said Law No. 14785/2023 changed pesticide evaluation criteria by replacing a comparison based solely on higher toxicity with an approach grounded in risk analysis. According to her, in a recent case, a company submitted an evaluation indicating no unacceptable risk, but higher toxicity continued to be treated as an indication of greater risk. Lidia argued that decisions should demonstrate exposure, risk characterization and the need for risk-management measures, rather than simply compare toxicity between products. (Lidia Cristina Jorge dos Santos)

Experts from Anvisa’s Equivalent Products Management – GPREQ visited AllierBrasil on September 16th and 17th to discuss pesticide supply-chain traceability, quality control, registration procedures and technical guidance. (AllierBrasil)

Rovensa Next secured approximately US$ 8.8 million in financing from the Financier of Studies and Projects – Finep for biosolutions R&D in Brazil. The financing has a 16-year term and covers 90% of project costs, supporting bionutrition, biocontrol and adjuvant development. (Rovensa Next)

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