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Rains boost soybean planting, while wheat projection falls in Argentina

Maize (Corn)
Wheat
Sunflower Seed
Soybean
Argentina
Published Nov 18, 2022

Tridge summary

Soybean planting reached 12% of the 16.7 million hectares projected for the 2022/23 campaign and maintains a year-on-year delay of 16.7 percentage points, reported the Grain Market in its Weekly Agricultural Panorama.

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The rains of the last seven days have improved the surface water supply, but the distribution and accumulations were heterogeneous and large regions over the center of the agricultural area depend on new rainfall in the short term, warned the entity. As in soybeans, the rains improved the humidity for corn sowing for commercial grain, focused on the incorporation of the last early plantings in the provinces of Buenos Aires and La Pampa. After a week-on-week progress of barely 0.2 percentage points, progress in the work is now at 23.6% of the entity's planting projection for the 2022/23 season of 7.3 million hectares. This surface represents in absolute numbers, 400 thousand hectares less than those implanted in the previous campaign, clarified the work. In the case of sunflower, sowing progress is located at 86.6% of the two million hectares projected for the 2022/23 campaign and there is a year-on-year delay in work, but only 2.5 percentage points. The greatest progress was made ...
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