Wheat: 10% less planting intention and 20% less fertilization

The Rosario Stock Exchange indicated in a report that wheat planting intentions in the core region indicate a 10% drop, compared to the hectares planted last year.

“It would be 160,000 hectares less compared to the 1.7 million hectares planted in 2021. And it could fall more: “if the 100 mm that are missing to start with a reasonably loaded soil profile do not rain, the drop in planting intention could be olderthey warn from Bigand.

In the region there are producers who are still waiting and trying not to get off wheat and others who do not hesitate to point out a 15% drop compared to the hectares planted a year ago.

“El Trbol, Carlos Pellegrini and Caada Rosqun will try to maintain the same area as last season. Bigand would fall between 5 and 10% with the hope that the rains of the last fortnight of April and the first of May will resolve the missing millimeters. In Caada de Gmez it will drop 10%, in Marcos Juárez 15% and in Pergamino between 10 and 20%,” the report points out.

Among the causes of the decline, he explains that there areThe persistence of a water deficit, the threat of a dry climate at the end of winter and the possibility of a new Nia, the loss of competitiveness of wheat compared to other crops and the rise that they do not hesitate to describe as a record in the input/output ratio. especially in fertilizers.

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