Back to Main Weather Favours Oilseed Production Except In Australia

• Published: 2009-11-19 13:29:40

  Planting of soybeans and sunseed in South America has gone well so far this season and little change was predicted over the next couple of weeks. Meanwhile, China’s rapeseed planting has been slowed by recent wet and cold weather, but improving conditions are expected during the coming week. India, too, has experienced a little more than usual rainfall recently and drier weather over the coming week should bring on better summer crop maturation and harvest conditions.
  
  In Australia, late season canola may have been stressed and damaged by a late season surge of hot and dry weather in South Australia, Victoria and southwestern New South Wales during the past week. Immature canola in unirrigated areas likely experienced rapid drying conditions and extreme temperatures resulted in some stressed crop conditions. Plants were likely rushed into full maturation at the expense of some oilseed quality and there may have been a few crops immature enough to have lost yield. Most of the canola was far enough advanced to minimize the impact of hot, dry, conditions.

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