Argentine Late-Season Frosts Affect Wheat Crop, Exchange Says

By Maximilian Heath

BUENOS AIRES, Oct. 30 (Reuters) – Late-season frosts have affected wheat fields in southern parts of Argentina’s agricultural heartland in recent days, the Buenos Aires grain exchange said on Thursday, adding that the full impact was not yet known.

Argentina is a major global exporter of wheat, and the exchange estimates that wheat production in the current 2025/26 season will reach 22 million metric tons, which would be the nation’s second-biggest wheat harvest.

Following weekend rains, a cold front “advanced over much of the agricultural south, currently going through a critical period,” the exchange said in its weekly crop report.

“The consequences will become clearer in the coming days,” it added.

Some 8.4% of the area farmers sowed with wheat has been harvested so far, it said. Argentina’s wheat harvest concludes in January.

Regarding the 2025/26 corn crop, the Buenos Aires grain exchange reported that early corn planting has finished and that 35% of the estimated 7.8 million hectares of corn fields have now been planted.

Argentina is the world’s third-largest exporter of corn.

(Reporting by Maximilian Heath in Buenos Aires; Editing by Lucila Sigal and Matthew Lewis)