date:Jan 17, 2013
Area is estimated at 3.5 million hectares five per cent less than last month and three per cent less than last years droughtaffected, harvested area.
The yield for the crop is estimated at 8.0 tons per hectare 8 per cent more than last month and 37 per cent more than last years ravaged yields.
Rains continue over the core-planting regions of Buenos Aires, Cordoba, Santa Fe and up into the northern regions where planting is nearing the end.
Of the crop originally forecast to be planted, four