Corn Argentina At the beginning of July, Argentina’s corn harvest started moving quickly and since then has covered almost 50 percent of the area. Now one can say that its essentially finished, as the remaining 5 percent yet to be collected is on margin lands and will take time. Delays during May and June meant that more than 3 Mha were harvested from July through mid-August, which is the biggest area harvested during that time in at least five years. Consequently, the arrival of trucks to ports was considerably higher than in previous years. Upriver ports received 151,648 trucks during the period (equating to 4.4 MMT of corn, 27 percent more than 2020) and south ports received 48,400 trucks (1.4 MMT – 31 percent...
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