Commodities Shuttle: Producer gets 245.6 sacks of corn per hectare in the off-season

Some corn producers are a real oasis in Brazilian agriculture, recording a productivity pattern well above the country’s average.

Avanilda Santeiro, from the Flores do Rio Verde farm, in Mineiros (GO), obtained 245.58 bags per hectare in this year’s off-season. The production was obtained in dry farming.

The national average forecast for the 2021/22 harvest by Conab (National Supply Company), released this Thursday (11), is 90.72 bags.

The producer participated in a Getap (Tactical Group to Increase Productivity) contest, which aims to point out differences in productivity and spread knowledge, according to Anderson Galvão, coordinator of the group and director of the Céleres consultancy.

Among the irrigated crops, the highest productivity went to João Cornélio Henrique Michels, from the São Jorge farm, in Butiris (MG). He got 232.30 bags per hectare.

In both cases, the producers did no-till, and the winter corn was sown after the soybean crop. Getap brought together 52 producers from various regions of the country, and the audited area on the properties ranged from 2.5 to 4 hectares.

For Galvão, the knowledge acquired in these restricted planting areas is important because, in a few years, the country will be able to assume the world leadership in cereal exports.

Producers who participated in the contest obtained an average productivity of 10 tons of corn per hectare. The average production in irrigated crops was 10.9 tons. In dry land, it was 9.6.

The highest productivity occurred in Minas Gerais. On average, producers in the state participating in Getap obtained 11.2 tons per hectare.

Paraná, one of the important states in cereal production, had the lowest average in the competition, with just 8.5 tons per hectare. The state was severely battered by weather conditions in the last winter crop.

But it wasa Conab has once again published the supply and demand framework for the soy complex, after an interruption of almost two years. The ending stock of soybeans is 7.4 million tons in 2021, and rises to 9.3 million in 2022.

New data The government agency increased the soy planting area to 42.3 million hectares in the 2021/22 harvest. The estimated production rises to 142 million tons.

Abiove The entity representing the industries forecasts a soybean production of 138 million tons for this year and 144 million in 2022. Exports rise from 86 million this year to 92 million next.

Fat ox The arroba maintained an upward trend in the state of São Paulo, rising to R$ 295 this Thursday (11), as quoted by Cepea (Center for Advanced Studies in Applied Economics). The increase was 1.2% in the day, accumulating 15% in the month.