Soybean planting in Brazil reaches 86% despite water crisis – AgRural

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – The estimated area for soybeans in the 2021/22 harvest was 86% planted in Brazil until Thursday (18), according to a survey by AgRural. The number represents an advance of eight percentage points over the 78% a week earlier and exceeds the 81% of the same period last year.

With work virtually finished in Mato Grosso and Mato Grosso do Sul, and very close to the end in Paraná, São Paulo, Minas Gerais, Goiás and Rondônia, sowing continues to be concentrated in Rio Grande do Sul, which received some very welcome rains, although sparse and of irregular volumes, in the northern Matopiba region, where planting has advanced in between precipitations.

Last week’s rains brought relief to soybeans and summer corn in Rio Grande do Sul. In the case of grain, however, the volumes were insufficient and producers are already reporting losses of productive potential in areas planted in September and that received little rain in the first half of November.

By Thursday (18th), 91% of the expected area for summer corn was sown in the Center-South of Brazil, against 85% in the previous week and the same 91% a year ago.