Cooler weather threatens Argentine wheat with frost, exchange says
Cooler-than-expected temperatures in Argentina next week could trigger frosts and damage crops, warns the Buenos Aires Grains Exchange. Wheat is likely to be the most affected crop, as farmers have yet to start planting corn and soybeans for the 2024/25 season. The cold front is expected to bring temperatures well below normal across most agricultural areas, with the western region being particularly vulnerable. Afterward, temperatures should normalize with tropical winds returning.
BUENOS AIRES, Aug 7 (Reuters) -Cooler-than-expected temperatures in Argentina next week could trigger frosts and damage crops in one of the world’s largest grain-exporting nations, the Buenos Aires Grains Exchange said on Wednesday.
Wheat is likely to be the worst-hit major crop, as farmers in the South American nation have yet to start planting their corn and soybean crops for the 2024/25 season.
“The mass of polar air that will accompany the passing of the cold front will produce minimum temperatures well below the normal range across most of the agricultural area,” the exchange said in a report.
The western part of the country’s agricultural hub could be the worst affected, it added.
The exchange said the cold front should be followed by a “moderate return of tropical winds, producing above-normal temperatures in the north of the agricultural area and normal temperatures in the center and most of the south.”
Argentine farmers finished sowing a total 6.3 million hectares (15.6 million acres) of wheat fields in recent days.
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