World Agricultural Production. Argentina Soybeans: Planting Difficult with Excessive Rainfall.

摘要

The USDA forecasts 2012/13 Argentine soybean production at 54.0 million, 2 percent less than last month but 35 percent more than last year. Area is estimated at 19.5 million hectares, 2 percent lower from last month and up 11 percent from last year. Yield is forecast at 2.77 tons per hectare, half a percent lower than last month and 21 percent higher than last year. Recent rains continue to hamper seeding in some areas. About 85 percent of the expected area has been seeded by the end of the first week of January. Problem areas, however, continue to be in northwest Buenos Aires (parts of the departments of General Villegas, Ameghino, and General Pinto) and southern Cordoba (department of Presidente Roque Saenz Pena) where flooding may not allow 230,000 Ha to be seeded to a crop due to standing water.