Argentina's 2012/13 wheat is in its early harvesting stages. Crops are threatened in some low-lying areas of bread basket province Buenos Aires, where plants have started turning yellow as their roots gasp for oxygen. The sunshine expected later this week should help dry those inundated areas.
Looking further ahead, the El Nino phenomenon is expected to dump unusually high amounts of rain on the Southern Cone before the end of the year, when growers will again have to look out for flooding.
El Nino, characterized by warm ocean temperatures in the tropical Pacific, brings rain to South America's main grains belt. Its opposite, La Nina, makes for the kind of dry South American crop weather that parched Argentine soy and corn fields in December and January, drastically cutting 2011/12 yields.
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