Argentine wheat safe for now from late-winter cold snap
date:Aug 27, 2013
rding to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). Argentina is a major world supplier of wheat, corn, soybeans, soyoil and soymeal animal feed.

The Commodity Weather Group, a private U.S. forecaster, reported that temperatures fell to the upper teens to lower 20s Fahrenheit (minus 9 to minus 4 degrees Celsius) in 20 percent of the Argentine wheat belt, cold enough to damage crops in the early jointing stage.

But local growers and farm sector analysts said it was too soon after planting for a
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