Carlos Boffini, an Argentine grains farmer from Colon in the north of Buenos Aires province, is praying for rain amid an extended drought and heat wave that has hammered the country's soy and corn harvest outlook.
The major Rosario grains exchange on Wednesday slashed its forecast for 2021/22 corn production to 48 million tonnes, down a huge 8 million tonnes from its previous outlook, scuppering what had been expected to be a record harvest.
A major heat wave with temperatures rising as high as around 45 degrees Celsius in some areas has further compounded the period of low rainfall, scorching crops in key stages of development and hurting yields. "The rains stopped from late December. Christmas passed and it did not rain, New Year came and it did not rain, and it still does not rain," Boffini said.
"The amount of water is though going to fall short of what the fields need. You will not have a full recovery, but we hope that after this event we will enter a process of recovery of the level of rainfall, with a loss of the La Nina effect."
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