The corn harvest in Argentina will be 75% of what was expected

On February 8, the estimate dropped to 4.9 Mt. And today, March 23, just two weeks later, it is estimated that it will be 3.2 Mt. Unfortunately, the lack of rain and the high temperatures registered until last weekend plummeted the yields of the late harvest and increased surface losses. The rains will put a stop to the losses, but for a large part of what is sown, it is too late. The brutal environmental conditions of heat and lack of water took away the defensive strategy of sowing late. The region began and ended the campaign without agronomic production conditions. At the moment, it is estimated that the harvest will only be 32% of what was expected at the beginning of the cycle. Regarding the volume of corn from last year —a year that was also seriously affected by the drought in the midst of a critical period for early corn— the 2022/23 cycle will produce only a quarter of said crop. Maize yield in free fall: 34 qq/ha After two campaigns where the average yield in the core ...