RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Wheat planting in Rio Grande do Sul this week reached 91% of areas estimated for the 2021 crop, up 16 percentage points over the past week and exceeding the historical average for the period, said the Brazilian Agricultural Research Agency (EMATER-RS) on Thursday.
According to the entity's report, the average for the past five harvests for this date is 87%.
Yet the pace of current sowing is below that recorded in the past season, when it reached 94% at this time. "The area forecast for this harvest is 1.12 million hectares, with an . . .
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