threatening the way of life of around 47 million people who live along their banks. The drought has caused fires to spread in Brazil, Ecuador, Colombia and Peru, often set to clear farmland.

The weaker real encourages export selling by Brazil's sugar producers. Sugar prices on Monday initially rallied due to concerns that ongoing drought conditions in Brazil would reduce its sugar ...

Ample global supplies have kept speculators on the short side of the Chicago grain and oilseed markets so far this year, ...

Argentina is experiencing some of the same issue but nowhere near the drought that’s occurring in Brazil’s number one growing area, Mato Grasso. Basis is climbing at Brazil’s ports giving the US ...

Raizen's chief executive, who spoke on Monday, said that the Brazilian ethanol manufacturer is more concerned about the impact ...

The world's biggest rainforest, the Amazon, has lost an area about the size of Germany and France combined to deforestation ...

US corn harvest is moving along, reaching 14% complete as of September 22. That compares to 9% last week and 11% on the ...

The Amazon rainforest has lost an area about the size of Germany and France combined to deforestation in four decades, ...

Wildfires are sweeping across Colombia and neighboring countries, including Brazil and Ecuador, droughts fuel blazes across ...

NY world sugar #11 (SBV24) today is down -0.23 (-1.02%), and December London ICE white sugar #5 (SWZ24) is down -0.20 (=0.03% ...

Wildfires in Bolivia are now running on a track to set an all-time record, latest satellite data show, with fire hot-spots to ...

But weather is also driving increases. Drought, frost and fire have damaged as much as one-fifth of arabica coffee producers’ ...