Storms in Argentina over the coming two weeks will slow the final stages of 2017/18 wheat planting, adding that flooded areas will likely be sown with soy once the moisture evaporates later this year. Argentina’s wheat-planting window ends in August. Heavy rains will make it hard for growers to plant the whole 5.4 million hectares that the highly-referenced Buenos Aires Grains Exchange has estimated will be sown with wheat this season. Areas that cannot be planted with wheat will be sown with soy, practically on a one-to-one basis. Growers on Argentina’s Pampas grains belt have sown about 4.4 million hectares of wheat so far. Last season they planted 5.1 million hectares with wheat and harvested 16.3 million tonnes.