News of crops

Argentina soy crop forecast slashed to smallest on record

20-03-2023 10:51 Buenos Aires Grain Exchange slashes soy crop forecast to 25 million metric tons, potentially the smallest harvest since it began keeping records in 2001.

Agriculture

Report: Drought to slash Argentina’s exports by US$20 billion

06-03-2023 13:50 Technical report by the CREA agricultural group projects soy harvest will fall 38% from last season, with maize down 30% and wheat down 37%.

AGRICULTURE & ECONOMY

Argentine meat-packing heir wants to embed crops with animal DNA

24-01-2023 12:57 Newly listed Moolec Science SA is inserting pork and beef genes into soybeans and peas to create hybrid proteins that are both plant- and animal-based.

AGRICULTURE

Drought-busting rains come too late to salvage Argentina's soy

17-01-2023 16:31 Rains heralding the end of the devastating La Niña drought may come too late to prevent Argentina's soybean crop from withering.

Devastating Drought

Satellites suggest Argentina’s soy crop will be lowest since 2018

12-01-2023 15:57 Extreme drought is devastating soybean crops in Argentina and could result in the smallest harvest in more than a decade.

PRODUCTION

Economists and businesses see a dollar drought on the horizon

03-11-2022 00:34 Private sector fears government's economic team will tighten restrictions on access to hard currency for purchase of inputs, creating a dollar desert drought until March.

BLOOMBERG

Argentina asked crop exporters to bring US$1 billion next week

12-08-2022 14:34 Government asks top crop export and processing firms to make sales equivalent to US$1 billion over the next week as it seeks to bolster Central Bank reserves.

AGRICULTURE

Argentina set for worst wheat harvest in 12 years

09-06-2022 16:03 Experts in Rosario trim outlook for 2022-2023 wheat harvest to 18 million tons.

AGRICULTURE

Russia's invasion of Ukraine sets off Latin American fertiliser race

20-05-2022 00:06 Russia's invasion of Ukraine, both fertiliser suppliers to Latin America, opens a race across the region.

ARGENTINA ABLAZE

Fires ravage Iberá wetlands, causing incalculable damage

25-02-2022 22:48 Raging fires in Corrientes are ravaging the Esteros del Iberá and its native forests, threatening an area of great biodiversity that shelters numerous species threatened with extinction.

ARGENTINA ABLAZE

Wildfires in Corrientes spread to engulf key cattle farming region

23-02-2022 15:10 Blazes are tearing through the northeast of the country, consuming more land than a typical California wildfire season and threatening a key cattle farming region in this major beef exporter.

AGRICULTURE

Argentine biotech pushes for soy strain spurned by top buyer China

10-02-2022 20:57 Bioceres Crop Solutions Corp wants the government to approve large-scale production of its drought-tolerant soybeans even if China won’t give the green light.

BLOOMBERG

Argentina takes axe to soy forecast, outpacing USDA's reduction

13-01-2022 15:59 Argentina’s key agriculture areas have been hit by intense and prolonged heat, coupled with little or no rain.

AGRICULTURE

Argentina limits grain exports in fight against food inflation

18-12-2021 07:40 Argentina is putting a ceiling on exports of corn and wheat in a fresh bid by the Peronist government to quell food inflation at home.

Bloomberg

La Niña is set to deliver drought to Argentina's soybean crop

29-11-2021 20:50 La Niña is set to wreak havoc during Argentina’s upcoming summer, when soybean and corn plants will be growing across the Pampas farm belt.

ECONOMY & ENVIRONMENT

Paraná river at historic low: natural cycle or climate change?

04-09-2021 10:52 South America's second-longest river has dropped to its lowest level since the 1940s, baffling experts and leaving environmentalists concerned.

BLOOMBERG

The Argentine river that carries soybeans to world is drying up

06-08-2021 11:22 Key waterway’s troubles deepen strains on nation’s recovery; Falling export values, rising energy imports chip away at peso.

AGRICULTURE & ENVIRONMENT

Is Argentina’s soy boom over?

17-07-2021 10:44 Driven by incentives and environmental concerns, farmers are choosing maize and wheat over what used to be Argentina’s star grain crop.

by Jorgelina Hiba, Diálogo Chino

Hidrovía Paraná-Paraguay

Government hands control of Paraná-Paraguay waterway to port agency

03-07-2021 00:21 Alberto Fernández administration nationalises management of the Hidrovía Paraná-Paraguay waterway by decree for 12 months.

AGRICULTURE IN BRAZIL

Historic drought threatens Brazil's economy

10-06-2021 08:00 Worst drought in nearly a century to hit two key regions in Brazil is wreaking havoc on hydroelectric dams and crops – and threatening country's nascent pandemic recovery.

Environment

Millions of pesticide containers illegally discarded or recycled in Argentina

04-06-2021 02:00 Argentina may be a leader in the production and sale of grains and oilseeds, but the country does not yet have a comprehensive strategy for the recycling of pesticide and fertiliser containers.

BLOOMBERG

Australia’s spat with China opens door for grain rival Argentina

04-05-2021 21:48 Farmers in Argentina are pouncing on a trade feud between grain rival Australia and voracious crop buyer China.

Bloomberg

Soy-shipping turmoil deepens with transport minister's death

29-04-2021 23:40 Argentine farmers struggling to ship their crops through increasingly shallow rivers may soon face a new obstacle: one of the world’s key soy waterways needs to be dredged, and there’s no firm plan for who will do it.

Agriculture

Argentine crop-monitoring app SIMA takes off with NASA's help

28-04-2021 00:01 Team behind the SIMA Monitoreo de Cultivos crop-monitoring app eyes further growth across Latin America after partnering with NASA.

Bloomberg

Waterways are drying up in key South American crop-shipping hubs

27-04-2021 12:27 The South American drought that’s helping push corn and soybean prices to multiyear highs isn’t just threatening crops, but also the ability to haul them on waterways that are drying up.

News of crops

Argentina soy crop forecast slashed to smallest on record

Report: Drought to slash Argentina’s exports by US$20 billion

Argentine meat-packing heir wants to embed crops with animal DNA

Drought-busting rains come too late to salvage Argentina's soy

Satellites suggest Argentina’s soy crop will be lowest since 2018

Economists and businesses see a dollar drought on the horizon

Argentina asked crop exporters to bring US$1 billion next week

Argentina set for worst wheat harvest in 12 years

Russia's invasion of Ukraine sets off Latin American fertiliser race

Fires ravage Iberá wetlands, causing incalculable damage

Wildfires in Corrientes spread to engulf key cattle farming region

Argentine biotech pushes for soy strain spurned by top buyer China

Argentina takes axe to soy forecast, outpacing USDA's reduction

Argentina limits grain exports in fight against food inflation

La Niña is set to deliver drought to Argentina's soybean crop

Paraná river at historic low: natural cycle or climate change?

The Argentine river that carries soybeans to world is drying up

Is Argentina’s soy boom over?

Government hands control of Paraná-Paraguay waterway to port agency

Historic drought threatens Brazil's economy

Millions of pesticide containers illegally discarded or recycled in Argentina

Australia’s spat with China opens door for grain rival Argentina

Soy-shipping turmoil deepens with transport minister's death

Argentine crop-monitoring app SIMA takes off with NASA's help

Waterways are drying up in key South American crop-shipping hubs

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