date:Aug 11, 2014
Argentina has completed a record 55.5 million-ton soyabean harvest despite having lost 860,000 hectares, or 4.2 percent of total 2013/14 planting area due to excessively wet weather, the Buenos Aires Grains Exchange said on Thursday.
The previous record was 55 million tonnes collected in the 2009/10 crop year, it said. Despite significant delays throughout the farm belt and the fact that some central and southern parts of Buenos Aires province have still not been harvested, the season is over,