Brazil's soya planting is 10 percent complete for the 2014-15 crop, the slowest for this time of year since the 2008-09 season, local consultancy AgRural said on Monday. Planting advanced just three percentage points from the previous week after a long dry spell in many areas made the soil too dry to continue field work, and seeds that were already planted may have to be resown.
"There are reports on the need for replanting in many regions, but producers say they will only know the size of the area when rains return, which should happen with more regularity in the last week of October," AgRural said in a weekly bulletin. Farmers' soya planting is nine percentage points behind the planting at this time a year ago and 10 percentage points behind the five-year average, AgRural said. Despite the dry weather and slow planting, analysts are maintaining their forecasts for a record soyabean crop in Brazil of between 90 million and 98 million tonnes.
The dry spell is also breaking up, with rains reported over the weekend and Somar meteorologists said up to 50 millimeters of rain were expected to fall over the top soya state of Mato Grosso this week. With an expected delay in harvest, Brazil - the world's top soyabean exporter - will have few soyabeans available for January shipment and farmers will have less time to plant a second crop of corn.
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