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MY 17/18 corn production is estimated lower at 83 MMT, due to late-planted safrinha corn, reduced crop inputs, and dry conditions in some states.

On May 21, 2018, hundreds of thousands of Brazil’s nearly 2 million truck drivers began an 11-day strike to protest high diesel prices, a move that slowed Brazil’s economy....

Brazil has finally overcome the worst recession in its history. In 2017, the retail sector responded positively, expanding 0.8 percent.

U.S. agricultural exports to South America nearly doubled in the past four years, reaching a record of more than $8 billion in calendar year 2014.

ATO/Sao Paulo forecasts the Brazilian coffee production for Marketing Year (MY) 2015/16 (July-June) at 52.40 million 60-kg bags, up 2 percent relative to MY 2014/15.

FAS/Brasilia worked with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency (NOAA) to reach an agreement with the Government of Brazil (GOB) for a new health certificate for U.S. fishery products.

U.S. ethanol exports rebounded in 2014, with value and volume both up approximately 35 percent from the previous year, although still below the record set in 2011.

Brazilian sugarcane production is projected at 648 million metric tons for the 2015/16 marketing year, up 3 percent from revised estimates for the previous year.