The 2024-25 oilseed harvest in Brazil's central-western Mato Grosso state advanced this week but is still behind the previous season's pace, according to the state's agricultural institute Imea.
Soybeans
The state harvested around 12.2pc of its expected acreage area as of 31 January, up by 7.8 percentage points in the week.
The pace is 27.2 percentage points below the same period last year for the previous crop and 13.1 percentage points behind the five-year average for the week.
Corn
The 2024-25 corn planting in Mato Grosso — which started on the week of 17 January — reached nearly 6.3pc of the expected acreage area as of 31 January, an advance of 5.1 percentage points on the week.
The pace is 22.4 percentage points behind the previous crop in the same period and slower than the 22.2pc five-year average for the week, according to Imea.
Cotton
Planting of the 2024-25 cotton crop reached 53.5pc of the expected acreage area as of 31 January, up by 24.9 percentage points in the week.
That trails last year's pace by 41.9 percentage points.
The pace is also 18.9 percentage points behind the 72.4pc five-year average for the period.