The progress of the harvest would be complicated next week by the advance of intense storms that would extend from this Tuesday 19 to Monday 25 in different areas of the country, according to the Climate and Water Institute of INTA Castelar. The north of the Argentine pampas region, the west of Buenos Aires and the northeast of La Pampa would be the most affected regions.
In this context, it is recommended Grain bagging is done on elevated groundthat are not susceptible to flooding before the heavy rain coming.
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In the Pampas, the water table is already quite high, so flooding can occur more easily with the occurrence of these storms. In fact, in the west of Buenos Aires flooding is already registeredwith which extreme care should be taken in the face of this next meteorological event.
However, until next Sunday 17 will be presented A good time for the harvest in most regions of the country.
Good water reserves for sowing wheat
However, despite the complications that these climatic phenomena bring to the harvest of soybeans and corn, it should be noted that the rains on the weekend of the 9th and 10th of this month, which left up to 170 millimeters in some areas of the country, They generated a good cushion of water for planting wheat, which needs good soil moisture conditions.
Los highest accumulated occurred in the NEAwith values that exceeded 100 millimeters in the northeast of Corrientes and Misionesaccording to data recorded by the National Meteorological Service between Saturday, at 9 in the morning, and Monday at the same time, in what it described as “maximum daily rainfall for April since 1961”.
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In this framework, the largest number was recorded in the city of Posadas, where more than 170 millimeters fell in 2 days.as reported by the Undersecretary of Territorial Planning of Misiones.
While, in the core area, and the center-west of Buenos Aires, there were also significant accumulations, as in La Pampa and in the San Jorge Gulf area, in Patagonia.
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In fact, the Agricultural Risk Office (ORA) remarked “and generalized increase in areas with excess waterdue to the rains accumulated in the week, added to the low evapotranspiration of the crop in the current stages”.
The availability of water, in the first meter of the surface, is concentrated in the batches of premium soybeans, which are ready to be harvested. In any case, this crop is where the wheat is sown, so the humidity conditions would be favorable for its implantation.
