Highlights
Yesterday morning, CONAB reduced their Brazilian soybean crop estimate 330,000 mts to 147.35 mil. (USDA at 153, down 1 mil.), but increased Brazil’s corn production by 2.5 mil. mts to 114.14 mil. mts (USDA at 122, unchanged).
Cash grain export trader for Agrinvest, Eduardo Vanin, said Thursday:
The Brazil corn program is significantly smaller than last year. The corn program last year experienced a significant (export) surge during JAS (July, August, September), a jump that is very unlikely to happen this year. Some headwinds:
Negative origination margin
Fierce competition
The waterways in the Amazon Basin are losing water levels
China is absent