Agriculture anticipates more corn and sunflower for the summer season amid global prices and tight margins

The agricultural sector projects a larger area for corn and a rebound of sunflower for the next season, while the early rapeseed harvests yield between 2,000 and 2,200 kilos, and wheat is experiencing a year that offers average to good results. Agricultural engineer Marcela García Pintos, a member of the technical team of 3Agro, analyzed the progress of the harvest, the growing role of double cropping in agricultural systems, and the prospects for the summer season in a report for Valor Agrícola, in which she also highlighted the increased professionalization of the producer and the generational change that is sweeping through the sector. García Pintos pointed out that the winter season was marked by later sowing and a challenging establishment due to the rains. However, the spring allowed the crops to become established. "I am seeing good rapeseed and good wheat. It will not be a year of extraordinary yields, but it will be an average or good year," she affirmed. For wheat, the ...