SAO PAULO: Brazil’s 2023/24 soybean harvest had reached 0.6% of the planted area as of last Thursday, agribusiness consultancy AgRural said on Monday, above the 0.04% seen at the same time a year earlier. Field work is more advanced in top grain state Mato Grosso, followed by Rondonia and Parana states, AgRural said.

There is also already some harvesting going on in Goias and Mato Grosso do Sul, but in very small areas so far, according to the consultancy.

AgRural said in Mato Grosso, where crops suffered from a lack of humidity for much of the cycle, rains now are making it difficult for harvesters to advance in some areas, as is common in January.