Brazilian mills keep focus on ethanol but wet weather means production behind last year

In Brazil, sugarcane mills continued to focus on ethanol production during the last half of June thanks to dry weather conditions that helped them bring in a huge amount of cane following weeks that had impeded the crush. Ethanol production is down 4% so far this year as a result of the delays despite more than 55% of the cane going towards the fuel. During the period, 47.89 million metric tons of cane were crushed, nearly double to the first half of the month.