Brazil Plans to Expand Soybean Plantings by Nearly 500,000 Hectares in the 2025/26 Season

Brazilian farmers intend to significantly increase soybean acreage in the 2025/26 season by adding approximately 500,000 hectares. The new planting season will begin in September in key regions of the country. André Pessoa, president of the consulting firm Agroconsult, emphasized that this will allow Brazil to increase soybean plantings for the nineteenth consecutive year.

This is reported by AgroReview

Record Harvest and Acreage Figures

According to estimates from Agroconsult experts, farmers in the country have planted a record 47.8 million hectares of soybeans this season. This has enabled an unprecedented harvest of 172.1 million tons, as confirmed during the national field survey in March.

The vast majority of Brazilian soybeans are exported to China, which is currently in a trade war with the United States.

Competition with Corn and Growth Prospects

André Pessoa noted that Brazilian farms plan to increase soybean plantings even amid the expansion of first-crop corn acreage. He stressed that in the new season, grain corn will compete with soybeans for land, especially in the southern regions of the country.

“We will see further growth in soybean acreage in Brazil,” said Pessoa about the upcoming season, adding that this will be more noticeable in the central-western and northeastern parts of Brazil, which are the world’s largest exporter and producer of soybeans.

At the same time, the expert warned that the pace of soybean acreage expansion in the country will no longer match previous years, when it grew by 2 million hectares per year. This time, the increase is expected to be less significant, but stable.