Brazil: Conab indicates corn harvest exceeding 13% and highlights good yields in Goiás and Mato Grosso

The National Supply Company (Conab) released its weekly monitoring of Brazilian crops and updated the development stage of corn crops for the 2023/24 summer harvest and the second 2024 harvest in Brazil. The second corn crop continues to be harvested, rising from 7.5% last week to 13.1% of the total cultivated in the country, this index is higher than the 5.3% in the same period in 2023. The states that have already started activities are Mato Grosso (18.1%), Paraná (13%), Mato Grosso do Sul and Tocantins (10%), São Paulo (5%), Goiás (4%) and Minas Gerais ( 3%). Meanwhile, the crops that continue to be developed are divided between 0.7% still flowering, 23.8% grain filling and 62.4% already maturing. Detailing the development in each state, Conab technicians point out that the harvest is progressing with good yields in Mato Grosso, in the south of Goiás and in the first areas of Minas Gerais. In Paraná, dry weather favored the harvest, but affected crops in the final grain filling ...