RS should harvest larger winter harvest in 2021

This Wednesday, June 23, the estimate of the largest production of winter crops in Rio Grande do Sul was released, in this 2021 Harvest, of 3,7 million tons of wheat, barley, canola and white oats.

Mediated by extensionist Carlos Gabriel Nunes dos Santos, the online event was attended by Seapdr's chief of staff, Erli Teixeira, representing state secretary Silvana Covatti, and the president of Emater/RS, Geraldo Sandri. “This good expectation is due to the fact that we are coming off a super summer harvest, which brought important capitalization to our farmers, our livestock farmers, and rural producers as a whole. The forecast of a robust winter harvest and positive weather conditions for the coming months takes into account not only capitalization, but also the sentiment of farmers with these summer harvest resources. Also the prices at a good and high level, the technology that has been arriving over the years, the access to technical assistance, all the planning and professionalism are responsible for this estimate of a super winter harvest”, celebrated Sandri.

The data was presented by the Institution's technical director, Alencar Rugeri, who presented estimates of the main winter grains, which will be cultivated on 1,49 million hectares (ha), totaling the highest production in recent years, which is forecast to be 3,7 .10,8 million tons, which means an increase of 32,5% in area and XNUMX% in production, compared to the previous year. “We expect to have the largest crop ever harvested in terms of grains. This is an extremely interesting scenario for the State. And we hope that it will be further consolidated with positive climate trends, without any mishaps so far, and because our producer is capitalized, has the possibility and tendency to have a good return on these winter crops and this leads us to believe that we should to have a great winter harvest, perhaps the best harvest in history”, said Rugeri.

The season's main product, wheat is expected to produce 2,89 million tons, which represents an increase of 37,81% compared to last year, which was 2,1 million tons. Cultivated in an area of ​​1,08 million ha, 13,29% more than in the previous harvest, which was 953,8 thousand ha, the grain has an average productivity trend of 2,6 tons/ha, 21,6% more than the average of the previous harvest, which was 2,2 tons/ha. Concentrated in the regions of Ijuí (303,4 thousand ha), Santa Rosa (259,6 thousand ha) and Frederico Westphalen (135,3 thousand ha), it is noteworthy that wheat increased by 104,9% in the area to be cultivated in the Pelotas region, going from 4,8 thousand ha in the last harvest to 9,9 thousand ha in this harvest.

“This significant increase in the Pelotas region and in general throughout the State is due to the possibility of the tripod of planning, management and professionalism, in which farmers, adopting this, understand agricultural activity as a production system, and the need for having the soil being used throughout the year, giving better use to the machines, mainly motivated by a good summer harvest, which allowed greater peace of mind to carry out the winter implementation and thus consolidate a production system and provide greater profitability to the company. activity carried out in the field”.

Another highlight is the significant increase in canola production and productivity. The crop cultivated on 40,1 thousand ha, 15,73% more than in the previous year, should have a production of 52,6 thousand tons, which represents 55,7% more than in the last harvest, reflecting in the 34,5% increase in productivity, which should reach 1,3 tons/ha, compared to less than a ton in the last harvest.

After the release of the estimate data for the 2021 Winter Harvest, Seapdr meteorologist, Flávio Varone, presented the meteorological conditions observed in the month of May and the quarterly forecast for the coming months (July/August/September), with conditions close to the normality, favoring the occurrence of better distributed rains and lower temperatures in some sectors of the State. “In July and August, the regular entry of cold fronts and cold air masses should favor slightly above-average precipitation in most regions, with minimum and maximum temperatures below normal. For September, temperatures should show a natural rise and the tendency is for rain to decrease in the Southern Half, with normal precipitation in the rest of RS”.