Corn Is Piling Up on Brazil's Farms
- Grain is being stored outside and in bags, with silos full
- Road blockades may worsen the squeeze as transportation slows
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Massive piles of corn stored in the open air. That’s the consequence of a huge corn crop in Brazil’s largest producing state, Mato Grosso.
"We’re seeing piles of corn stored in the open air because of a lack of storage capacity in the state," Endrigo Dalcin, the president of farmers group Aprosoja in Mato Grosso, said in a telephone interview.