A second crop (corn) helps Brazil achieve a harvest of 271 million tons, and targets 300 million tons in a near future
Brazil is forecasted to break another crop record in 2022 with the largest grain harvest in history, particularly because of the second crop of corn in Brazil, or safrinha. Previously considered merely a way to keep the soil in use between two important harvests, corn’s second crop gained importance as production became more sophisticated with the aid of technology. Squeezed between the summer harvest and the winter off-season, Brazil’s safrinha should provide 87.4 million tons, 44% more than the previous…