The September corn contract traded on Brazilian Stock Exchange (B3) It closed this Friday (10) with a slight decrease of 0.30%, quoted at R$ 67.25/sack. The November contract fell by 0.13%, to R$ 70.71/sack. On the other hand, in the week, futures accumulated gains of 0.37% and 0.30%, 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 0.27% to R$5.10. However, losses were limited by the advance of equivalent contracts in… Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT)In the field, the 2025/26 winter crop harvest node South-Central Brazil It reached 26.1% of the cultivated area, after a weekly increase of 7.5 percentage points. According to the survey by DATAGRO Grains Until last Friday (3), at the same time last season, work was at 29.1%; on average over the last five years, at 30.3%. Moreover, earlier, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) disclosed his supply and demand report (Wasde) July, which also projected the harvest of Brazilian and Argentinian cereal for the 2025/26 and 2026/27 seasonsThe USDA maintained the estimate of Brazil's 2025/26 corn crop by 138.00 million tons and increased the… Argentina by 2 million tons, to 63.00 million tons. For the 2026/27 seasonThe department designs the Brazilian cereal production in 139.00 million tons, and the harvest Argentina, in 55.00 million tons. As for the DATAGRO Grains It is projected that Brazil will harvest 112.4 million tons of corn in this second crop of 2026, a volume 5% lower compared to the last cycle.
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