SAO PAULO: Brazil’s soybean planting for the 2025/26 season reached 89percent of the expected area as of last Thursday, agribusiness consultancy AgRural said on Monday.
Planting was up 8 percentage points from a week earlier, but lags the 91percent reported at the same time last year. Although rainfall has improved in the Cerrado region, there are still some dry areas, particularly in the states of Mato Grosso, Goias, Maranhao and Piaui, AgRural said.
In Rio Grande do Sul state, where farmers faced excessive rainfall early in the season, declining moisture is now also on their radar. “However, it is not yet possible to speak of yield losses,” the consultancy noted in a statement.
Farmers in Brazil’s key center-south region had also planted 99percent of their first corn crop as of last Thursday, AgRural added, above the 97 percent seen a year earlier.