Freese Notis Agricultural Weather Service

Crop planting continues to progess in Argentina with soybean planting increasing from 8 to 20% over the past week while the corn crop was over 38% planted up by 2% from the previous week. Rainfall the next 5 days will be confined to the northeast and far southwest in Argentina through the weekend with only a few isolated showers elsewhere. The 6-10 day period looks wetter for Argentina with mostly above normal rainfall, some below far southwest. This will slow crop planting, but add to the soil moistue which will be beneficial as a good portion of Argentina could use more rain. The 11-15 day period reverses back to a drier outlook with below normal precipitation. In Brazil, there will be some delays in crop planting and fieldwork later this week into early next week with increasing coverage of rainfall. Near to above normal rain in much of Brazil during the 6-10 day outlook, some below northeast. More unsettled weather for the 11-15 day period in Brazil with above normal precipitation in most of this region.