Argentina and Brazil Face Drought Challenges TrialWerx® Projects Show Positive Results through Analysis January 20, 2021
Argentina Situation
By: Ignacio Colonna, Research Manager, LATAM
Brazil Situation By: Ricardo Duarte,
When walking our field trials in Argentina and Brazil, we’ve not seen much visual difference between our control and tested areas. However, when we analyze the fields through TrialWerx ®, the AgriThority® largescale, on-farm trial system, we can document variances. Each season many variables can impact our trials, but this year, lack of rainfall is impacting our corn and soybean season, especially in Argentina.
Product Development Manager, Brazil
Argentina Crops Impacted by Drought A dry season has already caused a decrease in final wheat yields versus the previous season and negatively impacted the yield estimates for early planted summer crops. The drought has mostly affected crops in the central temperate region, whereas the southern region looks better than normal, and the North is just getting planted. Rains received on Jan 11-12 have improved these conditions, so look out for our next update to check new estimates!
Crop
2020 MM ha
% Early planting
Corn 6.3 35% Soybean 17.2 48% Wheat 6.5 *planted for Corn and Soybean, harvested for wheat
% planted/ harvested*
% Area vs 2019
85.0% 93.5% 98.4%
-3% 1% -2%
% Yield vs 2019
2019
-11%
6.5 17.1 6.6
*Planted for Corn and Soybean, harvested for wheat Data obtained from Bolsa de Cereales de Buenos Aires, https://www.bolsadecereales.com/estimaciones-informes
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