According to reports on the testimonies for foreign sales (DJVE), informed by the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries (Sagyp), export obligations on grains and by bunning in the first half of 2025 amount to 64.5 million tons.
This volume not only represents a historical record for the first semester, but was also emphasized and added that it also has been as the second largest recording since 2008, when they introduced the records of export operations (ROE Verde), the predecessors of the current DJVE system.
The only semester that exceeded this brand was the second in 2019, promoted by the commercial war between China and the United States and the context of Argentina’s electoral voters, which caused the “exclusive development of foreign sales,” added BCR.
In accordance with the official information that the Rosario enterprise, the Cargill company remained with prime in the volume of sales abroad, and the 9.6 million tons of the Podium ends Viterra and Cofco with 8.1 million tons and 7.4 million tons, respectively.
“Grain rating for export companies is from the role of sales obligations taken abroad, and not the landing terminal, since many companies use port objects of others to make their supply. Thus, Djve is the best indicator, ”said BCR.
The main cultures
In this first semester of the year, the Soja complex represented 48%of registrations, followed by the corn complex, which was 35%, in the third, wheat with 8%participation: then the sunflower complex was located, and a barley with 3%, and, finally, the evaluation of the sorghum complex represented 2%.
Meanwhile, among the two main complexes, soybeans and corn, they represented 84% of what was registered in the semester.
In detail, in the first half of 2025, 31.1 million tons of a soybean complex were registered, of which 61% correspond to registration of products, 24% to beans and 14% to oil. Viterra was the one that headed sales abroad in the first half of the year, as in the first semesters over the past 5 years.
Disagoing between the products of the soy complex, Viterra led external oil and sales -products with 1.1 million tons and 4.2 tons, respectively, while ADM AGRO led the registration of pores from 1.1 million.
As for corn, in the period from January to 22.76 million tons, it was announced that 67% more compared to the first semester of the previous year and 61% more than the average of the first semester of 2019-2024. Foreign sales were headed by Cargil, from 4.5 million tons.
The remaining products
In the case of a wheat complex, external sales were registered during the first half of 2025 by 5.47 million tons. The rating was headed by ADM AGRO with 1.24 tons, and then Cargill and Bunge, which recorded 0.97 million tons and 0.74 million tons, respectively.
The sunflower, which includes products such as oil, seeds and products, reached a total of 1.83 tons in registration during the first semester of 2025. Viterra headed registration with 0.64 tons; Secondly, Cofco from 0.29 tons and in third place Avellanda Agricultural Union with 0.16 million tons.
Sales in the first half of the barley complex exceeded 2.15 million tons. Brewery and Maltería headed a rating of records with 0.57 tons, followed by Viterra from 0.28 tons.
Finally, 1.14 tons of sorghum were registered, led by ACA from 0.29 tons and then Cofco from 0.18 million tons.