For the first time in more than a year, the Central Bank plans to intervene in the currency market with an additional US$ 1 billion swap auction. Saudi Arabia has begun importing various Brazilian seed species, Saudi Arabia is now the 11th largest market for Brazilian agricultural products, with last year's exports amounting to US$ 2.93 billion. February saw a 1.71% increase in Brazilian household consumption compared to the same month in 2023. Variations at this time of year tend to be related to Carnaval and other holidays. There´s been a significant number of new supermarkets opening this year, as well as wholesale stores. At the same time, supermarket costs of meats and some other other food products are falling. Presumably because of the weather, vegetables have increased in price. We´ll have to wait a while to see the consequences of this on exports of soya.