The 2025/26 soybean harvest in Rio Grande do Sul It reached 50% of the total area estimated for the cycle, after advancing 12 percentage points in one week, according to data from Emater/RS-Ascar Economic Report, collected up to this Thursday (16). In the remainder, 1% of the crops are in bloom, 13% in the grain-filling phase and 36% in maturation. At the same time last year, the work was at 62%; on average over the last five seasons, at 58%. According to the document, “in more representative areas in terms of cultivation, there was a gradual loss of grain quality, records of leaf retention, presence of green grains and an increase in impurities, caused by high humidity at the time of harvest,” the report points out. “In phytosanitary terms, especially in late crops planted in January, complementary applications of insecticides and fungicides were hampered by excess moisture, which restricted the appropriate execution of chemical treatments,” according to Emater/RS-Ascar. The average productivity was revised in the second half of February by the agency and is estimated at 2,871 kg/ha. In addition, the cultivated area is 6,624,988 hectares.
This text was translated by machine from Brazilian Portuguese.