Argentine wheat safe for now from late-winter cold snap
date:Aug 27, 2013
o steady demand from China.

Most local meteorologists and analysts said the Antarctic air that blasted Argentina over the weekend and early on Monday will not affect 2013/14 yields because it hit too early in the season for Argentine wheat plants to be vulnerable.

The leaves on some of the more susceptible varieties (of wheat) may have suffered from the cold, but the plants themselves can recuperate, said Tomas Parenti, weather expert at the Rosario grains exchange

The frosts could have done
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