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The\nplanting of the 2020 crop in the United States started under very favorable\nconditions. With a percentage well above the historical average for the year,\nuntil last week, it will be difficult to observe a strong switch from the corn\nacreage to other crops or no planting this year. With low prices, producers\nseek cultures with high productivity \u2013 and corn is this culture. It may not\nreach the 97 million acres suggested by USDA, but a planting area of \u200b\u200b94\/95\nmillion will still be great. However, a great start does not mean a perfect\nending, and attention will continue until August, starting with this month of\nMay, which has been very dry and with a late cold reaching the Midwest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The U.S. crop of 2020 starts in a\ncompletely different way from that registered in 2019. Last year, already in\nMarch, signs of excessive moisture from flooding in the Midwest\nwere being pointed out by meteorological services. A rainy May caused did not\nallow the planting in almost 10 million acres, which were switched mainly to soybeans.\nIn 2020, the climate started very dry in the second half of April and with spotty\nrain forecast for the entire month of May, i.e. below normal. This means that\nJune and July will not be able to maintain this rate of discreet rain in the Midwest under the risk of problems in an early planted\ncrop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The planting reached 51% last week, an\nindex that usually occurs on average around May 10. The historic average for this\ntime is 39%. Theoretically, early planting generates increase in the potential\nfor productivity, and it would not be surprising if the first projections by\nthe market and USDA were high on account of this early planting pace. In 2012,\nit is important to remember, the U.S. crop was also planted very\nearly and with initial projections of record productivity. However, in mid-May rains\nsimply disappeared, and then came the record of the biggest crop losses in the U.S. history.\nSoybeans also had a very early planting this year, with 23% of the area already\ncultivated, against average 11%. There is a strong cold front with frosts for\nthis week in much of the Midwest, a situation\nthat may cause some replanting or even a longer germination delay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The planting of the 2020 crop in the United States started under very favorable conditions. With a percentage well above the historical average for the year, until last week, it will be difficult to observe a strong switch from the corn acreage to other crops or no planting this year. With low prices, producers seek […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":9093,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[],"commodity":[],"class_list":["post-14696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-agribusiness-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n