The Buenos Aires Grain Exchange (BCBA) raised, in a report published this Thursday (21), its projections for the 2025/26 soybean and corn crop in Argentina, as harvesting continues to progress in the South American country. For soybeans, the production estimate for this cycle was raised by 1.5 million tons, to 50.1 million tons. The increase occurs even with a cut of 400,000 hectares in the projected planted area, to 16.8 million hectares, 9% below the last crop and 1.3% lower than the average of the last five crops. According to the BCBA, the productivity of the current season is the highest in six years. The harvest of the 2025/26 soybean crop reached 74.7% of the cultivated area, a pace in line with that observed in the same period of the 2024/25 cycle. In the case of corn, the expected production for the 2025/26 crop was raised from 61 to 64 million tons. If confirmed, the volume will exceed the previous record harvested in the 2018/19 cycle (55.5 million tons) by 15.3%. The increase in the production estimate comes after a positive revision in the planted area, from 8.1 to 8.4 million hectares, equaling the historical record achieved in 2023/24. The corn harvest reached 32.9% of the cultivated area in Argentina, a slower pace than observed in the same period of the previous cycle, with producers prioritizing the soybean harvest in a large part of the agricultural area.
This text was translated by machine from Brazilian Portuguese.