Brazil: Minas Gerais producers are betting on the cultivation of second-crop corn

The heavy rains at the beginning of the year caused a delay in the harvest of the first grain crop in Brazil. The slow pace of the soybean harvest brought concern to producers, given the reduction in the window for planting the second crop, which should have corn as the main crop. However, Emater-MG estimates that, in 2023, the second corn crop could be one of the biggest in recent years. According to the National Supply Company (Conab), due to the rains, until February 18, only 23% of soy crops had been harvested in the country, and in the same period of 2022, this number reached 33% of the total. total. “In Minas Gerais, there was also a delay, but work recovered in the second half of February. Planting is going well and there should be an increase in the planting area for the second corn crop. Producers are motivated by the good prices of soybeans, choosing the oilseed as a summer crop and now corn in sequence”, says the state coordinator of Crops at Emater-MG, Sérgio Brás ...