Brazil Soy Exports Jump in February

Reuters - Brazil exported 2.79 million metric tons of soybeans in February, up sharply from 30,600 metirc tons in January, Trade Ministry data released on Thursday showed.

Brazil's started harvesting in northern Mato Grosso state in late December, but harvest has spread across most of the center-south grain belt in the past month. The country exported 959,600 metric tons of soybeans in February of 2013.

(Reporting by Reese Ewing; Editing by David Gregorio)