b"La Nia Weather Challenged Farmers but They Challenged BackLa Nia did not make for easy growing seasons for South American farmers. The weather pattern was stronger than expected creating higher prices and supply shortages. Rebecca Carmeli-PeslakWEATHER HAS ANimpact on every part of the agricultural sector. From crop yields to new diseases to causing issues in trans-portation, weather plays an important role. La Nia is a weather pattern that is caused when the central Pacific Ocean temperatures are colder than normal. The weather has been in a La Nia weather pattern since 2020 and ocean temperatures and historical timelines show that the weather is moving towards an El Nio pattern later this year or early next year. The weather pattern that is currently being seen is a La Nada pattern. La Nia creates very dry environments in part of North and South America. Asia and Australia on the other hand see a lot of moisture and in some places too much. The impacts of La Nia and El Nio depend on how long and strong the weather pattern is during the time it is occurring. It's been a longer La Nia than normal, says Shawn Hackett, presi-dent of Hackett Financial Advisors, Inc. So, this one's been longer, which means that the pattern and the adverse impact is more impact-ful to the crops that it hurts and more beneficial to the crops that it helps. For example, in Argentina, they're having the worst drought in at least 65 years.While not all areas and crops struggled, Argentina was not the only country in South America to face challenges due to the La Nia weather pattern. Chile was among the countries that were also impacted by drought.In the business of seed production, weather often presents unex-pected challenges and this past season with La Nia in Chile was no exception. 28/ SEEDWORLD.COMLATAM"