Soybean planting in Brazil second fastest on record for this time of year

Brazilian soybean sowing reached 53.3% of the projected area of 47.3 million hectares in the week to November 3, a weekly advance of 15 percentage points, and surpassed the 48.4% completion rate from a year earlier, the country’s food agency Conab said in its weekly crop progress report late on Monday November 4.