Brazil’s Soybean Surge Is a Problem for US Prices

by | Jan 28, 2026

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I want to flag something that’s developing in agriculture that people are not paying enough attention to yet.

Brazil is planting a soybean crop this year that is about twice the size of our soybean crop. That alone matters.

But the real issue isn’t just how big this year’s crop is. It’s how Brazil’s system works versus ours.

We get one shot a year. Brazil does not.

Brazil’s Structural Advantage Keeps Compounding

Brazil always gets at least two crops a year out of soybeans, if not three. That’s the part that keeps stacking up over time.

Its first crop is kept. The next one or two are what get sold.

So when you look at export pressure, you’re not just talking about more acres — you’re talking about more turns of the field.

That’s a structural advantage. We harvest once and we’re done.

Brazil harvests, replants and does it again.

That’s how you end up with a production gap that keeps widening even when demand is decent.

Right now, we’re in winter. We just had our harvest.

Brazil is over there planting. That’s what is happening right now — getting everything in the ground.

The timing matters because supply is building there while we are essentially on pause.

Why This Matters for U.S. Prices

Brazil is beating us for sure this year on production capacity. There’s no way around that.

We’re having good export sales on corn and other products right now, but that’s before the full Brazilian soybean crop really starts showing up.

And here’s the key part — Brazil is going to have to sell all that.

When supply gets that big, it has to clear the market.

That usually means price pressure. It doesn’t mean prices collapse overnight, but it does mean the market has to absorb a bumper crop.

That kind of supply doesn’t disappear quickly. It takes time.

While we’re sitting in the off-season with no ability to respond on the production side, Brazil is bringing more product online.

That’s the imbalance I’m watching.

It’s not about one report or one number.

It’s about scale, timing and how much supply is coming whether the market wants it or not.

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