Brazil: Soybean harvest 2022/23 in Mato Grosso reaches 94.83% of the area

Farmers in Mato Grosso harvested 94.83% of the soybean area in the 2022/23 season, a weekly advance of 6.7 percentage points, keeping pace ahead of the historical average of 90.29% for the period, showed data from the Institute Mato Grosso Institute of Agricultural Economics (Imea) this Friday. A year earlier, when work started earlier and moved at greater speed, 96.76% of the areas were harvested, the data showed. “The pace of harvesting for the 22/23 season has been losing speed due to the approaching completion of areas and the entry into more sandy and difficult-to-access plots,” said the institute linked to producers in a note. With the ...