The Argentine Minister of Agriculture estimates the his country's wheat acreage this year now at 5.19 million hectares. Previously, it was still 5.25 million hectares.
Unusually heavy rains in some regions of the South American country partly avoid the sowing. The estimate of the Ministry but still well above the 4.3 million hectares, which predicts that Buenos Aires grains exchange. From there, it says that the sowing of the crop was nearly completed 2016/17. Well 4.25 million hectares are ordered with wheat, according to the latest weekly report of the stock exchange. 44% of the ordered surfaces, the vegetation conditions are very good.
The wheat crop in Argentina is usually in December to January.
