Soybean planting in Brazil at 94% of projected area, 4 producer states complete

Brazilian soybean sowing reached 94.1% of the projected area of 47.3 million hectares in the week ended Sunday December 8, a weekly advance of 4.1 percentage points. This surpassed the 89.9% completion rate from a year earlier, national food agency Conab said in its weekly crop progress report published late on Monday December 9.