Conab reports second-crop corn planting at 91.1% in Brazil, while summer harvest is at 41.9%

The National Supply Company (Conab) released its weekly monitoring of Brazilian crops and updated the stage of development of first and second crop corn crops in Brazil. Looking at the summer crop, Conab technicians point out that 41.9% of the total has already been harvested, with emphasis on São Paulo (90%), Rio Grande do Sul (71%), Santa Catarina (70%), Paraná (57%), Bahia (40%), Minas Gerais (28%) and Goiás (1%). In the same period of the last crop, the first crop harvest was at 47.1%. In addition to the 41.9% harvested, Conab points out that 35.1% are in maturation, 16% in grain filling, 5.7% in flowering and 1.3% in vegetative development. As for the second Brazilian crop, the company indicates that 91.1% of the predicted area has already been sown, with emphasis on Goiás and Tocantins (100%), Mato Grosso ...