Most Nebraska crop producers are vaguely uneasy about what's going on in Brazil and Argentina.
Concern focuses on soybeans, but corn, wheat and other crops are on the radar screen as well.
It is indisputable that our South American neighbors have increased soybean production. For the crop year just ending in the southern hemisphere, Brazil produced a record crop of 1.3 billion bushels. Argentina's crop of 950 million bushels also reached an all-time high. Production from the two countries is equivalent to 81 percent of U.S. production in the fall of 2000. What's really striking, however, is the relative growth in South American production.