Sao Paulo, 26 June (Argus) — The 2025-26 winter corn harvest in Brazil’s central-western Mato Grosso state advanced by almost 11.6 percentage points, progressing fast in the week ended 26 June.
Harvesting activities reached nearly 32.4pc of the total sowed area, according to the state’s institute of agricultural economics Imea.
That pace is 5.4 percentage points ahead of the total harvested at the same time a year ago for the 2024-25 crop, but below the 40.1pc five-year average for the period.
Mato Grosso’s 2025-26 corn crop production is estimated at 53.4mn metric tonnes (t), down from 55.4mn t from the 2024-25 crop, according to Imea. Yields and planted area are projected at 120.28 60kg /hectare (ha) and 7.4mn ha (74,000km²), respectively. That compares with 127.27 /ha and 7.3mn ha in the 2024-25 crop.
By Sofia Zizza
