The central-western Brazilian agricultural belt, which produces the bulk of the country’s massive soybean crop, is entering the final weeks of its dry season with dangerously low soil moisture, a condition that threatens to delay the start of the 2026/2027 *safra* planting and tighten global supply. Critical municipalities across the key producing states—including Sorriso in Mato Grosso (MT), Rio Verde in Goiás (GO), and Luís Eduardo Magalhães in Bahia (BA)—recorded near-zero rainfall over the past week, consistent with the deep winter dry season, but compounding the soil-moisture deficit ahead of the typical planting window. Sorriso, the country's largest individual soy-producing municipality, recorded just 0.1mm over the past seven days, while Rio Verde and Luís Eduardo Magalhães both registered 0.0mm/7d.