Rain in Argentina raises forecasts for wheat crop

According to the Argentina’a Agricultural Secretariat, the country’s producers are expected to plant 6.5m hectares of wheat in the 2019/20 season.  The previous forecast was 6.46m hectares but this has gone up mainly due to the good amount of rainfall received.  According to the report, about 39% of the season’s wheat crop has been planted so far. The wheat in Argentina is planted in June and July and harvested in December and January.

In June, heavy rains in eastern Argentina caused some delays in planting wheat. But experts say the storms should end up helping farmers grow more grain this season as water supplies are being replenished.

Other Cereals

Argentina’s maize crop in the 2018/19 period reached 57m tons. The estimates were of 56m tons.  The report also slightly reduced the government’s 2018/19 soybean crop estimate to 55.6m tons, down from 55.9m tons.

Source: Reuters

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