Comportamento dos preços e custos de armazenagem de soja no município de Sinop – Mato Grosso

Abstract

The agrobusiness is a strategic sector for the Brazilian economy, mainly when it comes to the production of grains, being Mato Grosso the state with the biggest participation in the country production. Thus, the necessity of storage units becomes more and more important in the state, because the storage is effective for the grains quality conservation and, theoretically, it also helps to facilitate the access to better sale prices to the producer. In this context, the objective of this work was to evaluate the soybean storage costs in a storage unit on a farm level comparing it to the prices paid to a collecting unit, both located in the city of Sinop-MT. For the comparison of the costs to the storage service producer, the fixed, variable and average total costs of the unit on a farm level under study were calculated and the prices charged by a collecting unit were collected. In order to simulate the crop sales situations after the storage in the lower cost unit it was developed a study of the soybean prices seasonal behavior in a series of 20 years. It was found, in this case study, that the cost of the storage on the farm level unit is lower. However, this study also showed that the soybean storage doesn’t always ensure a financial benefit to the producer and, in a great deal of times, the soybean could and should be commercialized in the moment of the harvest.