date:Apr 25, 2013
f their 2012/13 soy as of April 10, way under the 46 percent registered at the same point in the previous season.
UNEVEN YIELDS
The 2012/13 season started with widespread flooding in the Pampas that slowed planting and it ended with a January-February dry spell that pressured yields.
The government expects a soy crop of 51.3 million tonnes, which is lower than original estimates. The agriculture ministry says 38 percent of the 19.1 million hectares of soy planted this season have so far been