Corn Piles Up Outside Silos as Key Brazil Region Reaps Record Crop
Big corn harvest leaves farmers short of space to store the grain as warehouses remain full of soybeans
Corn is stacking up outside of Brazilian silos at the fastest rate in years after the country’s biggest-producing region harvests a bumper crop.
Warehouses are still full of soybeans, which are reaped only a few months before the corn. In Mato Grosso, soy production was also huge this season and sales have been slower than usual, leaving the warehouses with no room to receive the corn, according to Cleiton Gauer, superintendent at IMEA, Mato Grosso’s rural economy institute.
While it’s not unusual for crops to be stored in the open when indoor capacity fills up, it hasn’t been seen at such a scale for at least the past two years. But as Mato Grosso’s huge corn harvest gets pace, farmers and traders have been especially short of room.