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"The situation is chaotic." This is how Héctor Faín describes what is happening in his field, in Villa Minetti, in the department of 9 de Julio, in northern Santa Fe, where about 70,000 hectares are affected, with areas where the water reaches up to a meter in height. Without being able to enter with the machines to harvest the corn and soybeans, he says that today there is no way to advance and that with each passing day the situation worsens and the losses grow. Three years ago, northern Santa Fe had faced a severe drought. What is happening there is not an isolated case. In much of northern Santa Fe, the rains of the last months left a similar picture. In just four months, practically what usually rains in an entire year fell, with more than 1,000 millimeters accumulated and episodes of 200 or 300 millimeters in a few days. With saturated soils and no capacity to absorb more water, today there are completely flooded fields and harvesters cannot enter the lots directly, which ...

Agropecuaria Mistol Ancho is an integrated and diversified company dedicated to agricultural and livestock production in northern Argentina. It sows 20,000 hectares, including owned and leased lands, in the provinces of Catamarca, Santiago del Estero, and Tucumán, of which it irrigates 5,000 with pivots powered by solar panels. Using high technology, it produces soybean, corn, and wheat seeds for top-tier breeding, which are classified in its own plant. It also distributes the produced seed in the north and center of the country and exports it to Bolivia and Uruguay. On the other hand, it develops commercial agriculture based on these same crops, to which others such as rye, sorghum, and forage seed are added, among others. In the livestock sector, Agropecuaria Mistol Ancho has developed a Brangus breed ranch, which is combined with breeding, raising, and fattening of its own and acquired calves. To do this, it has a feedlot with the capacity to fatten up to 15,000 heads in two ...

Field bindweed has become in recent years one of the most difficult weeds to control in cereal and rapeseed crops. Its resistance to herbicides, rapid autumn germination, and ability to dominate stands make it necessary for many farms to completely change their current technologies. Farmers from northern Poland emphasize that effective control requires the simultaneous use of several methods – from crop rotation, through mechanical control, to extensive sub-soil programs.