Argentina: grain and product exports top 101 Mt in ten months, corn slips to $180 a ton

The Rosario Board of Trade said in its weekly grain market report of November 13, 2026 that from January to October Argentina shipped abroad more than 101 Mt of main grains and processed products, 10 Mt above the previous record. Over the same weeks, the domestic price of corn fell.

Key figures

• Exports: over 101 Mt
• Corn: 37.1 Mt
• Wheat: 14.5 Mt
• Corn: $180 a ton
• Only 68.8% of crop sold

What changed

According to the Rosario Board of Trade, exports of main grains and processed products in January–October 2026 exceeded 101 Mt: 10 Mt above the previous record of the series and 13% more than in the same period of 2025. Three groups made the biggest contribution:

• corn: about 37.1 Mt, 8.7 Mt more than a year ago;
• wheat: 14.5 Mt from a harvest of about 28.5 Mt, 45% above the 2025 level;
• sunflower and its products: more than 6.7 Mt, more than double the average of recent campaigns.

By the numbers

Prices and pace of sales, per the report:

• domestic corn: about $180 a ton (midweek), more than $15 below the early-October high; in Chicago $176 a ton, 18% below the late-September high;
• October corn exports: more than 3.97 Mt, a record for that month;
• share of new-crop corn sold at a fixed price in the week of November 11: about 26% (over 80% in September, a low of 10% in late October); across the whole new campaign, 53% of commitments have a fixed price versus 24% a year ago;
• 110.4 Mt of main crops sold (as of November 4), 14% more than a year ago, but that is only 68.8% of the 2025/26 crop, the lowest in the series;
• the 2025/26 crop is 24% above the previous campaign; the 2026/27 wheat crop estimate was raised to 24.3 Mt (23.8 Mt in October).

What this means for the buyer

For a farmer in Argentina the crop is record-large but is selling more slowly than it grew: almost a third of the 2025/26 crop is still unsold, and corn has fallen by more than $15 a ton since early October. Export demand is strong, yet 47% of contracted new-crop corn has no fixed price yet. So the income that pays for machinery is best counted at the price on the day of sale, not at the September level.

Source: Rosario Board of Trade (BCR), weekly grain market report No. 2269, November 13, 2026