Brazil's soy harvest reaches 70% of total area, says AgRural

SAO PAULO (Reuters) - The harvest of Brazil's 2022/23 soybean crop had reached 70% of the cultivated area on Thursday, against 62% a week earlier and 75% in the same period last year, AgRural said on Monday. -fair. According to the consultancy, the works are practically finished in Mato Grosso and Rondônia and entering the final stretch in Goiás, Mato Grosso do Sul, Tocantins and São Paulo. “The focus now is on productivity reports from later states, which may give more clues about the final size of Brazilian production, whose estimates should undergo fine adjustments between now and May”, he added. AgRural also reported this Monday a reduction of 600,000 tons in the estimate for the soybean crop in Brazil, to 150.3 million tons. The planting of the second corn crop “continued to advance in the last few days, although the ideal window has already closed since the 15th in the later areas”, after a delay in the soybean harvest. A survey by AgRural ...