Brazil's coffee, cane to face dry, cold period ahead

Weather conditions are likely to benefit harvesting of coffee and cane in Brazil's center-south in the next 10 days, despite some scattered rains over the weekend that should end by early next week.
A polar mass is expected to move from the south toward the coffee and cane areas in central Brazil next week, bringing down temperatures, but not enough to trigger frosts in important producing regions, according to Thomson Reuters Agriculture Weather Dashboard and forecasts from Rural Clima meteorologists. "Temperatures will fall sharply, but there is a very low risk of frost since the minimum should not go below 3 degrees Celsius (37 degrees Fahrenheit)," said Marco Antonio dos Santos, Rural Clima's chief meteorologist.