By Geraldo José Guimarães Isoldi, Agricultural Markets Specialist, Terra Investimentos

As another crop year comes to an end in Brazil, planting for the 2025-26 season is now underway in the Southern Hemisphere, while U.S. farmers wrap up their own harvests. Despite months marked by conflicting information and intense weather speculation, Brazil’s 2024-25 crop ultimately delivered a remarkably positive outcome.

Soybean production reached a record 171.48 million metric tons, harvested from 49 million hectares (121 million acres), with an average yield of 3,620 kg/ha (≈54 bushels per acre), according to CONAB (Brazil’s National Supply Company, the federal agency responsible for official crop estimates).

For corn, the results were even more surprising: Brazil harvested 141.1 million tons ac

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