Weather impacts on agricultural markets
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Guayaquil logs its wettest September since 1961 and a Quevedo station nearly six times its normal rain, as growers and exporters warn of flower loss and frosty pod rot ahead of the March-April crop
El Salvador, Panama and Honduras declare emergencies; Guatemala supplies 39% of US banana imports and 58% of US melon and papaya imports, and the shortfall has yet to reach the trade data
Belgapom quotation steady for four weeks after three seasons in which opening prices fell 58 to 75 per cent; EEX delisted the European processing potato future on 5 June
Matina had 532.8mm in the 21 days to 28 August, the most since records began in 1940; Corbana says damage takes 10 to 12 weeks to show
The regional government has quantified the damage in its own market report, even as the harvest that would carry the evidence is being picked.
Nashik logged its second-wettest June-July in 86 years, rotting the stored crop that carries the market to October.
The first official crop scores since the belt split show the dry north-west still rating higher than the drowned east, and the yield number the market is trading was surveyed before the deluge.
Record heat has stalled flowering on the northern coast; the last comparable event, in 2023, cut US imports 74% and nearly doubled European wholesale prices.
The 12 August forecast surveyed growers to 5 August, before the heaviest rain fell — while south-west Minnesota had its second-driest first half of August in 86 years
Afrucat and the Catalan government counted the fruit at the end of June, before the hottest July in 87 years stopped it sizing. WAPA put the EU Conference crop up 2.1 per cent four days before picking began.
The August forecast was surveyed as the High Plains heated up. Kansas flowers into a week forecast at up to 7.8C above normal, just as China returns as the buyer of 87 per cent of US exports
