Cerrado
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Sep 8, 2026
Eric SnodgrassGUEST
And kind of like you described, the difference is the geography of South America, having a massive rainforest in the north, a big mountain chain down the west.
Eric SnodgrassGUEST
And then this area where we directly compete with, which is we call the Cerrado, Brazil.
Eric SnodgrassGUEST
And then there's southern Brazil and Argentina, don't forget, as well.
Eric SnodgrassGUEST
So it has a major effect.
Eric SnodgrassGUEST
They've had cold weather, but they've not been wet.
Eric SnodgrassGUEST
And then the real thing that I think we're going to all have to wonder and watch, because it's September the 8th.
Eric SnodgrassGUEST
I mean, some places in the Cerrado, that center west area, has been able to start planting seven days ago.
Eric SnodgrassGUEST
Most of them begin planting on the 12th.
Ben RandallHOST
Don't go out of your way to do a custom batch for us weirdos.
Ben RandallHOST
They have a Brazilian Cerrado coffee, which has an amount of caramel taste to it that makes you feel like it already almost has sugar in it.
Ben RandallHOST
Because we associate vanilla, caramel, cinnamon in America with things already being sweet.
Ben RandallHOST
And so there is, it's not an expectation and then a disappointment.
Ian WelshHOST
Forest watchers point out that the decline has coincided with tightened regulation and enforcement since President Lula came back into power, with a 2030 pledge to end illegal deforestation.
Ian WelshHOST
Environment news website Mongabay reports that the deforestation trend is confirmed by independent forest monitoring services, and that clearance rates in the Cerrado tropical savanna biome have also dropped to the lowest levels in five years, down 2.8% on the previous period.
Ian WelshHOST
New Zealand's Modern Slavery Bill has cleared many of the hurdles required for it to pass into law, which would require larger companies to report on forced labor in supply chains, as is now required in many other legislations.
Ian WelshHOST
The bill's backers want to see it on the statute book before elections in November.
Eric SnodgrassGUEST
This is what's going to be very interesting, Todd.
Eric SnodgrassGUEST
So we've been forecasting wet in the near term and very wet in southern Brazil, but enough rain, one and a half to three inches across parts of the Cerrado, that that's usually the amount of rainfall they wait on to get planting.
Eric SnodgrassGUEST
But every El Nino kind of gives its own flavor.
Eric SnodgrassGUEST
And this one might be that the monsoon comes and fits and starts.
Eric SnodgrassGUEST
So any early attempts at planting, because they're allowed to plant now, most of those regions, any early attempts at planting will not germinate well and will likely have to be replanted.
Eric SnodgrassGUEST
And if that keeps happening, Todd, through October, like they get rain and then they get too dry following, this could be something to watch very carefully.
Eric SnodgrassGUEST
Now, there's no slam dunk guarantee on that, but boy, I think the On-off nature of the precipitation in the Cerrado, so I can Mata Grosso, Mata Grosso Sol, Goyas, that region has to be watched over the next 45 days.
Eric SnodgrassGUEST
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Marcelo BeharGUEST
And there is a second one, which is how we harvest and how we use fertilizers and pesticides that are no longer chemical, but now mostly coming from bio-inputs.
Marcelo BeharGUEST
And this has been, I think, an amazing journey that farmers throughout the world are, and you see in Uttar Pradesh, in India, you see this in the Cerrado region, in Brazil, you see it in the US as well, which is not following what the sustainability criteria indicating them, but following their pockets and taking a look at the health, the quality of the health soil and how their farming process will improve or decrease throughout the years.
Marcelo BeharGUEST
And what we have been witnessing is that farmers are getting more consciousness that chemical fertilizers are not the best use for their asset.
Marcelo BeharGUEST
So considering the farm within 30 years' time, productivity will only increase if you lower chemicals and if you high bio-inputs.
Eric SnodgrassGUEST
It's the end of the dry season.
Eric SnodgrassGUEST
But the forecast models are trying to bring up the next two weeks worth of rainfall through the Cerrado, the center west.
Eric SnodgrassGUEST
And I just wonder who's going to jump on that to start planting because El Ninos tend to give – kind of the start of the monsoon tends to come more in fits and starts rather than just up, we're on and we're going to go.
Eric SnodgrassGUEST
What I'll be watching most importantly, Michelle, is going to be the planting progress as of mid to late October.
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and refined through correspondence with Brazilian contacts who knew the terrain.
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The route took them through transitional landscape, the Cerrado, the scrubby savannah that separates the agricultural south from the forested north, a landscape of dry grass and twisted trees that would gradually give way to denser forest as they moved toward the Shingu watershed.
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They hired local guides and muleteers for the first stage of the journey, men who knew the trails as far as the last inhabited outposts and who would turn back when the trail ran out.
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Fawcett sent dispatches and letters back along the route as he travelled.
Alex NewmanGUEST
That wasn't even our land." Right? He, he said, uh, "We, we were Indians of the Floresta.
Alex NewmanGUEST
We were Indians from the jungle, not from the Cerrado," the kind of, um, grasslands where they were doing this, uh, agriculture.
Alex NewmanGUEST
So even the Indian chief was like, "No, that's not for us.
Alex NewmanGUEST
They're, they're just lying." Okay, South Africa, Brazil.