The harvest of the 2021/22 soybean crop reached on Thursday (10) 64% of the cultivated area in Brazil, against 55% a week before and 46% in the same period last year, according to a survey by AgRural.

The work is practically finished in Mato Grosso, where there are still quality problems due to excess rain, and already in the final stretch in Goiás and Mato Grosso do Sul.

In the later calendar states, harvesters are starting to gain more breath.

In Matopiba, the improvement in the pace brought by the largest number of ready-made areas was also favored last week by the driest weather, and the yields of crops harvested so far are very good.

At the other end of the country, the first areas harvested from Rio Grande do Sul confirm the crop failure in the state, with productivity between 2 and 15 bags per hectare in some plots.

Safrinha corn

With the end of the ideal window also approaching in the later regions, which sow safrinha corn until March 15, the movement of the planters was intense last week.

Until Thursday (10), 94% of the estimated area for South Central Brazil was sowed, against 81% a week before and 74% a year ago.

Crops develop well throughout the region, but Paraná, Mato Grosso do Sul and São Paulo have restricted soil moisture and need more rain in the short term.

The summer corn harvest, in turn, reached 52% of the area in the Center-South, compared to 41% in the same period last year.

Source: Canal Rural