By Julio Bravo
Farm Futures
A lot has been said these past weeks about the increase in the area to be planted to soybean for the next harvest: a jump of more than 2 million acres from last season. That would set a new record for Brazil. Where are those new acres coming from?
This area is distributed between the 5 Brazilian ag regions: MATOPIBA (Maranhão, Tocantins, Piauí and Bahia states), Southeast, South, Midwest and North, as shown in the map below: