date:Jul 16, 2012
Weather, high international prices compounded by a favorable exchange rate, and a bumper Brazilian corn crop this year have generated widespread expectations for a record soybean harvest in 2013. That would come as a huge relief to local farmers who could only watch as a drought devastated their fields early this year.
Hopes have built in recent months as the water in the equatorial Pacific Ocean warmed, indicating a return of the El Nino climate phenomenon that tends to bring an early and even