Sowing areas of oilseeds crops in Argentina are passing away

Argentina’s soybean planting area for the 2025/26 harvest has increased by 12 percentage points in recent days, covering 24.6% of the planned 17.6 million hectares, although flooding in Buenos Aires province is causing delays, the Buenos Aires Grain Exchange reported Thursday.

• Argentina is the world’s largest exporter of soybean oil and meal, but the oilseed planting area will be down from the 18.4 million hectares planted in the previous harvest.

• Waterlogged soils in north-central and western Buenos Aires are hampering planting, and about 1.5 million hectares could remain uncultivated due to flooding, an agricultural association reported.

• With the start of late corn planting, plantings have reached 37.3% of the 7.8 million hectares planned for harvest, with all planted fields in normal to excellent condition.

• Wheat harvesting is 20.3% complete, with above-average yields, after the exchange raised its production estimate to a record 24 million tonnes.

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