Wheat 2025/26: Planting nears record high

Published May 16, 2025

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The Rosario Stock Exchange has reported a significant increase in wheat planting intentions for the 2024/25 season, with a 10% rise compared to the previous year, totaling 1.5 million hectares. This is due to updated satellite data and favorable weather conditions, including normal rainfall forecasts and potential moisture from the warming Atlantic off the Argentine coast. This surge in wheat cultivation is expected to bring the cycle just 120,000 hectares short of the historic record set in the 2019/20 season. The strong performance of second-season soybeans has also reinforced the traditional wheat-soybean rotation, offering more profitable margins than first-season soybeans or early corn, positioning wheat as a leading crop in the late season.

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The next wheat season is beginning to take shape with strength: planting intentions remain strong, with a projection 10% higher than last year in the core region, according to the Rosario Stock Exchange. However, a key update to the calculation base, resulting from the analysis of satellite images, redefines the scenario. According to the new data, 226,000 more hectares were planted with wheat in the 2024/25 season than originally estimated. This raises the total area from 1.28 to 1.5 million hectares (Mha), with a sharp adjustment in southeastern Córdoba, particularly in the departments of Marcos Juárez and Unión, where plantings climbed to 341,000 hectares, well above the 200,000 hectares initially projected. Read also: La Niña has ended and we have entered neutrality: How does it affect agriculture? With this new base and applying the same 10% relative growth, the area projection for the 2025/26 season is adjusted to 1.66 Mha. This places the upcoming cycle just 120,000 ...

Source: Chacra Magazine