The dairy grew or didn't grow up..?

Pastoreando en la lomaAnalyzing the problems of the dairy industry in argentina, will hear arguments that point to the sector of primary production as responsible for the crisis, branding dairy farmers local as stuck in their production due to its inefficiency. Amazed and concerned to hear and read the diagnostics of the entrepreneurs who are leading the fate of the large processing enterprises of the milk explaining the reasons for their companies, supplied historically with the raw material cheaper on the planetpresent recurrently negative balances and situations of moral hazard that puts its survival at risk and affect the dairy chain all (needless to say, while the producer charges the lowest price in the world, the consumer purchase in the gondola the dairy most expensive in the world).

When you look at the arguments, one thing is clear, a series of nearly 50 years the milk production in Argentina has been growing at a pace similar to that of the production of grains* and is reflected in the chart that accompanies it.

Evolucion producción de granos y leche en Argentina

The situation is serious and worthy of self-criticism and a diagnosis seriously in order to obtain a solution, helpful, instead of enculpar to the consumer, the producer, or to Brazil as the root of all evils.

The producer is located away from the cities, away from the politicians, but very close to the inclement weather and the roads abandoned. In these circumstances has always reacted when the business was favorable and the graph is eloquent. The humblest farmer has more alternatives to choose the business and/or save their production of waiting for a better deal for their work. The tambero works without network, delivers daily a perishable product, without the price of slate, without a market futures...few tools and no clear rules.

  • Grains: Soybeans, Corn and Wheat

Marcos Snyder

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