The 2024-25 soybean harvest in Brazil's Rio Grande do Sul state reached 80pc of the expected area, according to regional rural agency Emater-RS.
Work advanced by 20 percentage points in the southern state between 18-24 April.
That is ahead of the 66pc in the same week last year and the 73pc five-year average for the period.
Stable weather conditions, such as sunny days and dry weather, favored progress, which also helpedlogistics operations.
Rio Grande do Sul expects to produce 15.1mn metric tonnes (t) of soybeans in the 2024-25 season, down by 17pc from 18.6mn t in the 2023-24 crop. The 2024-25 soybean crop is set to be sowed in 6.73mn hectares (ha) and register average yields of 2,240 kg/ha. That compares with 6.7mn ha and 2,809 kg/ha, respectively, in the prior cycle.
Summer corn
Rio Grande do Sul's 2024-25 summer corn harvest advanced by 1 percentage point to 89pc of the sowed area in the week ended 24 April.
That is ahead of the 82pc harvested for the 2023-24 crop at this time a year ago and the 79pc five-year average.
The corn harvest is proceeding more slowly compared with other summer crops. But the occurrence of rain and mild temperatures favored late areas' productive potential.
Emater-RS expects the state to produce 4.8mn t of summer corn in the 2024-25 season, a 6pc increase from the 4.5mn t produced in 2023-24. The crop is set to be sowed in around 696,590ha and yield 6,866 kg/ha. The previous season was planted on 808,916ha, posting average yields of 5,646 kg/ha.
Late figures
Emater released data for the week ended 17 April late because of the Easter holiday.
Rio Grande do Sul's 2024-25 soybean harvest advanced by 10 percentage points in the week ended 17 April, reaching 60pc.
That was above the 53pc in 2023-24 crop at the same time a year ago and in line with the five-year-average.
The summer corn harvest advanced by 3 percentage points to 88pc in the same period. That was above the 80pc in the same period of the prior crop and the five-year-average of 77pc.
