Dry Weather Boosts 2025/26 Wheat Planting in Argentina, Grains Exchange Says

By Maximilian Heath

June 26 (Reuters) – Dry weather over the last week in most of Argentina boosted 2025/26 wheat planting, especially in key farm areas that had been suffering with excess moisture after heavy rains in May, the Buenos Aires grains exchange said on Thursday.

“The good weather allowed the acceleration of farm work in particularly delayed regions … like the southern farming core and central Buenos Aires province,” the exchange said in its weekly grains report.

Wheat sowing moved ahead 12.4 percentage points over the last week, with the total planted area rising to 72.7% of 6.7 million hectares expected for the new season’s wheat, the exchange said. Argentina is a leading world wheat exporter.

Regarding 2024/25 soybeans and corn, the exchange said that farmers have already harvested 98.3% of the soy crop and 55.3% of corn. The exchange pegs Argentina’s soy and corn production at 50.3 million metric tons and 49 million tons, respectively.

Argentina is the world’s largest soymeal and soyoil exporter, and the third biggest corn exporter.

(Reporting by Maximilian Heath; Editing by Adam Jourdan and Mark Porter)