Off-season plantings are nearing completion in Brazil and early harvests are entering grain fill, Conab points out

The National Supply Company (Conab) released its weekly Brazilian Crop Monitor and updated the stage of development of first and second crop maize crops in Brazil.

Regarding the summer harvest, Conab technicians point out that 51.2% of the total has already been harvested, with particular emphasis on São Paulo (95%), Rio Grande do Sul (81%), Santa Catarina (74%), Paraná (73%), Bahia (51%), Minas Gerais (45%), Goiás (5%) and Maranhão (2%). During the same period of the last harvest, the harvest of the first harvest was 56.7%.

In addition to the 47.6% of crops harvested, the Conab points out that 34.1% are in maturation, 10% in grain filling, 4.2% in flowering and 0.5% in vegetative development.

As for the second Brazilian crop, the company indicates that 98.9% of the planned area has already been sown, with emphasis on Goiás, Piauí, Tocantins, Minas Gerais and Mato Grosso (100%), Maranhão, Mato Grosso do Sul and Paraná (99%) and São Paulo (80%). During the same period last year, planting of safrinha was 99.8%.

So far, corn crops are split with 0.9% already in grain fill, 28.6% in flowering, 65.9% in vegetative development and 4.6% in flowering phase.

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