Every year, USDBC tracks Argentina’s dry bean production in the three distinct growing zones, Northern, Southern and Central. This year has been a challenging planting season in Northern Argentina, disrupted by dry spells that forced farmers to stop plantings through mid March. Some of the lots that were planted right before the dry conditions settled in needed to be replanted or lost a great number of plants from the stand. There is a significant difference in the state of the fields that were planted on time and those that were planted late because of insufficient moisture content on the soil. Similar to last year, there is a large proportion of land was planted late or was re-planted. Those lots are developing well, but are threatened by early frosts.
