The moment is of valorization of the grains in Santa Catarina. At the moment, producers receive around R $ 77 for the sack of soybeans and R $ 35 for the sack of corn, the highest figures since December 2016, according to the Agriculture Secretariat.
According to the secretariat, today’s prices also tend to interfere with the next corn crop. Normally, in years where the price is low, as it was in 2017, producers end up not investing in corn production and looking for more profitable crops – which reduces the grain supply in the country. And that is precisely what happened in Santa Catarina. This harvest has a planted area of 14.4% less and production is expected to fall 20.5% over the previous year.
“The recovery of soybean and corn prices gives the rural producer an increase in income and as a consequence will stimulate the increase in production in the next harvest, with a larger area planted and using technologies that boost productivity. When prices are very low it certainly raises a concern in the industry, as this may contribute to the increase in the corn deficit in Santa Catarina, “explains, in note, the Secretary of Agriculture Airton Spies.
Haroldo Elias, an analyst at the Center for Socioeconomics and Agricultural Planning (Epagri / Cepa), said that the behavior of the climate in the second Brazilian crop and the progress of the American crop will influence corn prices in the next 30 days. For now, the trend is for the price to remain stable.