A cold front in south-eastern Brazil will bring the planting season's first period of heavy rains to central Brazil in coming days, Sao Paulo-based weather forecaster Somar said on Monday, though the southern states will likely remain drier.
Rains were below the five-year average in many regions in September and October and the recently planted soybeans need moisture. Some 39 millimetres (1.5 inches) were forecast in No 4 soy state Goias on Monday and 35 millimetres are forecast for parts of top-growing area Mato Grosso on Tuesday. Nationwide planting was 48 percent complete as of November 1, above the 40 percent at the same time a year earlier, AgRural analysts said in a report.
Last month, Brazil's government crop supply agency Conab forecast a record soy crop of between 87.6 million and 89.7 million tonnes, with farmers planting new fields with the oilseed. Many private forecasters have since raised their estimates for soya output and cut their views on Brazil's corn production. The government's next official forecast comes out on Friday. Below is a table of rainfall forecasts for the next five days over Brazil's main soybean-producing states. The data, in millimetres, was provided by Somar, which specialises in forecasting weather for Brazil's crop regions.
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