South America Calling

Forecasts for widespread beneficial rain in most of Brazil's soybean areas during the next 10 days will be closely watched.

Highest soybean production areas of Brazil have very little rain in the seven-day forecast.

A prominent climate forecast agency calls for continued dryness in South America and in the U.S. Southern Plains due to La Nina.

Pacific Ocean La Nina presence is already getting factored into crop projections.

Late-arriving moisture means that Brazil planting season is off to a slow start.

Showers are expected across much of the primary growing regions in South America, but needed moderate to heavy rains will be confined to just a few locations.

Rain has been reluctant to get underway in central Brazil, meaning delays in soybean planting.

Brazil's top soybean production state, Mato Grosso, has a later-than-average start to its rainy season indicated.

Brazil's soybean planting season faces a delayed start due to dryness.

While the U.S. is enjoying the current price advantage to Brazil on an FOB basis, leading to a surge in export demand from China for corn and soybeans, that euphoria could be short-lived.

The onset of the Southern Hemisphere dry season adds to an already-short soil moisture supply in much of Brazil's crop areas.

A storm system that affects Argentina this week will largely miss Brazil.

Central Brazil will have only scattered rain showers during the next 10 days.

Central and northern areas of Brazil may have showers after April 3, but if they do not, stress could start to mount for the developing crops. Argentina's weather turns drier starting April 2 and indications are that precipitation will be limited for the beginning of the...

It is a mixed bag of precipitation over central areas of Brazil, while Argentina has a few chances for rain in the next week.

It may be the beginning of the end of the summer rainy season in central Brazil.

Drier weather in parts of central Argentina and southern Brazil bears watching.

Planting conditions for the second-crop corn (safrinha) are generally favorable, with no sign of an end to the rainy season at this time in Central Brazil.