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Gottlieb
Posted 12/4/2012 09:01 (#2732150)
Subject: as of Nov 27, 2012...farmer from Parana, Brazil say...




"The weather remains dry in our area, with rainfall both sparse and scattered. We’re seeing low soil moisture, and some fields are getting stressed from the dry weather. The past four months’ rainfall in the southern part of Brazil, and mainly in the State of Paraná, has been well below normal.

Finishing up the wheat harvest this week, yields are varying widely, from 35.6 to 53.4 bushels per acre, due to the drought and the frosts we had region-wide. Grain quality is reasonable given the hectolitric weight and other characteristics we have to evaluate.

Across the area, we’ll see a more-than 25 percent yield loss—and losses in all the winter crops like wheat, barley and triticale. Wheat prices are a little better, but sales are very slow as buyers await the Argentine harvest in order to see what the market will do.

For corn, we are still facing challenges doing the final urea applications due to the dry weather, which is already hurting the crop. We are also still suffering a minor attack of “Bt caterpillars.” The Bt protein wasn’t efficient in its caterpillar control this year, probably due to a warmer winter and a greater insect population.

For beans, we continue planting, and are nearly 90 percent done. We should finished up this next week, if the weather permits. But since we are still in a low-soil moisture situation, we’re seeing some difficulty with soybean emergence in some fields. We hope for a return of the rains in good quantity in order to produce a more uniform stand.

We’re also having some problems with control of certain weeds, and so we are doing some mixes of glyphosate with chlorimuron in order to improve control. We’ve also got our eyes out for pests like tobacco budworm and inchworms, which are often tough to control. We also should remain concerned about the sclereotina fungus and Asian soybean rust. "




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