Source: SOUTHEAST FARM PRESS, 5/29/18


An eight-day-old strike by Brazilian truck drivers is beginning to affect global commodity markets as soybean traders delay shipments and the country’s vast sugar industry shuts down more of its processing plants. While many blockades have been lifted and the government has signed decrees aimed at getting the truckers back to work, the protests continued on Monday, and many of Brazil’s businesses and public schools remained shut.

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