Heavy rains have begun falling on Brazil's southern soyabean producing states and a new cold front will bring more moisture into parts of the center-west, meteorologist Somar said Thursday.
Harvesting is beginning to pick up speed in No 3 soyabean state Rio Grande do Sul, where 22 to 53 millimeters (0.9-2 inches) of rain fell on Wednesday. No 2 soya state Parana got 9 mm of rain Wednesday but its harvest is more advanced.
Early next week, rains will begin pushing into parts of the center-west soyabean belt where most of the new crop harvest has finished, Somar said in a daily soyabean weather report. No 1 soya state Mato Grosso and No 5 Mato Grosso do Sul will see increasing rainfall over the weekend, but No 4 soya state Goias will be mostly dry. In an extended 10-day forecast, Mato Grosso and Goias will get more rains, Somar forecast.
Rainfall will also move into Brazil's north-eastern regions, where soya production is still small but growing fast. Brazilian soyabean harvesting normally peaks in late March or early April and continues into May in Rio Grande do Sul. In its seventh crop forecast on April 4, the government revised upward its new soya crop forecast to 58 million tonnes from the 56.7 million projected in March and 53.4 million of last year.
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