A large portion of the safrinha corn crop in Brazil’s Parana and Mato Grosso do Sul states will be planted outside the ideal window, according to AgRural. “The second and third biggest producing states will plant more than 50% of the [second] corn after the ideal window,” said AgRural’s Fernando Muraro. This raises odds the crop could face moisture stress as the traditional rainy season comes to an end or prospects of the crop being impacted by frost before it is fully mature.
AgRural still estimates an increase of almost 2 MMT for Parana’s safrinha corn crop compared with last year to around 15.4 MMT. It expects a decline of around 1 MMT for Mato Grosso do Sul’s crop to 11.2 MMT.
But any losses may be partly offset by Mato Grosso, where safrinha corn planting is ahead of last year. That state alone will harvest an estimated 45.4 MMT of second-crop corn, more than 4 MMT above last year, AgRural said.
Safrinha corn is expected to account for about three-quarters of Brazil’s total corn crop.
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