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Meteorologist is watching dry conditions in Brazil

Key soybean producing regions in Brazil are very dry as farmers get ready to plant their next soybean crop. 

DTN meteorologist Bryce Anderson says it bears watching.

“The fattest part of their production area is in the central part of Brazil—Mato Grosso and Goias,” Anderson says. “They are quite dry and they’ve been awfully hot here lately. The first ten days of September saw temperatures over 100 in Mato Grosso.”

Anderson says a similar situation occurred in 2017, when soybean planting in Brazil was delayed because of extremely dry conditions.  Although the soybean crop turned out fine, it did cause a delay in the planting of Brazil’s second-crop safrinha corn.

“The corn crop did not have enough time to get rain to really grow well. It pollinated when the rainy season ended and the dry season began—and there was drop in the Brazil’s corn production.”

Which led to some rallies in the corn market in the spring of 2018.

“So I think this is certainly worth track of,” Anderson says.

Brownfield discussed U.S. and South American weather with Anderson at this week’s Husker Harvest Days farm show.