The September corn contract traded on Brazilian Stock Exchange (B3) It closed this Friday (3) with a sharp drop of 1.46%, quoted at R$ 67.00/sack. The November contract recorded a moderate decline of 0.84%, to R$ 70.50/sack. In the week, futures accumulated losses of 1.41% and 0.70%, respectively. In this trading session, domestic prices were pressured by the devaluation of exchange, a factor that reduces the competitiveness of corn destined for export. Near the end of negotiations in B3The dollar fell 0.75% to R$ 5.16. The session saw lower liquidity due to a lack of reference for equivalent contracts in the market. Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT)Negotiations were suspended today in the United States due to the Independence Day holiday. Data released earlier by Secretariat of Foreign Trade (Secex) and analyzed by DATAGRO Grains Data shows that Brazil shipped 434,000 tons of corn in June 2026, a volume higher than that recorded in May (249,000 tons) and 18% above the same month in 2025 (367,000 tons). The market remains attentive to the 2025/26 winter corn harvest in the Center-South of Brazil. Data collected by DATAGRO Grains As of last Friday (26), it shows that work has reached 18.6% of the cultivated area, after a weekly advance of 6.9 percentage points. In the same period of the previous season, the harvest was at 17.6%; on average over the last five years, it was at 19.8%.
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