Corn Most of Argentina’s agricultural area continues to be impacted by drought. The early planted corn is almost finished but the late planted crop is passing through the critical yield-defining phases under drought stress. The Buenos Aires Grain Exchange reported a huge deterioration in crop conditions last week, especially with the late planted corn, of which the good/excellent rating fell 18 percent. Across the entire crop (early- and late-planted corn) only 17 percent is rated excellent/good while 55 percent is rated fair and 28 percent poor/very poor). Harvest reached 3.5 percent of the area and there was combine movement in the core region where some plots are showing good yields.
Given the above conditions, the BAGE r...
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