date:Jan 07, 2013
7 million hectares. It said thatwhile heavy rains have made some parts of the Pampas grains beltunplantable, the moist conditions allowed forwider-than-expected seedings elsewhere.
Growers had sown 84.9 percent of the estimated soy area asof Thursday, the report said, progressing 4.8 percentage pointsduring the week and pulling even with last season's tempo.
The storms that turned wide swathes of prime farmland intounplantable mush early this season have given way to a blazingSouthern Hemisphe