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

Published Mar 27, 2023

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The article reports on the significant decrease in corn harvest in a specific region due to extreme environmental conditions, including lack of rain and high temperatures. The yields of the late harvest have severely dropped, and the region has experienced its most productive cycle in the last 12 years, with only 34 quintals per hectare. This is a quarter of the corn volume from the previous year, which also suffered due to drought. The strategy of sowing late to avoid drought has not been effective, and the average yields are around 55 quintals per hectare in Marcos Juárez, with higher yields in Pergamino but still falling short of expectations.

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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 ...

Source: On24