# U.S. and South American Crop-Production Analysis

> Al Kluis, a commodity advisor, notes that South America is now the largest soybean producer and exporter, with Brazil's crop close to US output. He explains the difficulty of forecasting South American crops, which are spread over a huge north-south area and reported in metric tons rather than bushels.

- Date: 2018-01-18 · published 2018-01-18T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: market · region Global · magnitude low
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/66928-u-s-and-south-american-crop-production-analysis
- Commodities: [Soybeans](https://feedsoft.ai/c/SOY.md)

## Why it matters

Brazil's rising share of world soybean supply weighs on US export prices and makes South American weather a larger driver of global soybean meal and oil pricing.

## Read by commodity

- SOY: neutral

## Sources

- agriculture.com: https://www.agriculture.com/markets/analysis/crops/us-and-south-american-crop-production-analysis

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