{"id":1835,"date":"2012-04-04T17:58:23","date_gmt":"2012-04-04T17:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/grains.org\/ltamex\/new-buyers-emerge-for-brazilian-corn\/"},"modified":"2012-04-04T17:58:23","modified_gmt":"2012-04-04T17:58:23","slug":"new-buyers-emerge-for-brazilian-corn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grains.org\/ltamex\/new-buyers-emerge-for-brazilian-corn\/","title":{"rendered":"New Buyers Emerge for Brazilian Corn"},"content":{"rendered":"
By Alfredo Navarro, USGC Consultant in South America<\/em><\/p>\n We are seeing major changes taking place in buyers of Brazilian corn. Europe, once a major customer, has yet to purchase any bushels in January and February. Asia is taking over as Brazil’s main customer, and Colombia is also becoming a regular buyer. However, the biggest surprise is Taiwan, which leads this period, purchasing almost 250,000 metric tons (9.8 million bushels) of Brazilian corn.<\/p>\n Brazil’s corn exports for the two months totaled more than 1.1 million tons (43 million bushels), but only a few hundred thousand tons were booked for export in March.<\/p>\n In January and February, Brazil’s top customers were Taiwan, Iran, Malaysia, Morocco, Colombia, Algeria, Saudi Arabia, the Dominican Republic, Indonesia and South Korea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Alfredo Navarro, USGC Consultant in South America We are seeing major changes taking place in buyers of Brazilian corn. Europe, once a major customer, has yet to purchase any bushels in January and February. Asia is taking over as Brazil’s main customer, and Colombia is also becoming a regular buyer. However, the biggest surprise … <\/p>\n