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Bill Kurtis on Grassfed Beef

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Argentina beef is probably cheaper as well. The government has price controls, in other words they tell the farmer you can't get more then $0.35/lb. Argentina does grassfed beef and they do it well. One of the key management techniques in the pampas is a "forage chain." Anyone who has listened to Anabil Pordomingo speak knows exactly what I'm talking about.

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Argentina is a wonderful country, terrible government. I get to hear a bit about it, I work with a women from Argentina, she's a US Citizen now though.

The following is from Allan's Blog

Anti-grassfed Policy Drops Cow Numbers in Argentina
Monday, 29 March 2010
As predicted, the Argentine government's policy to expand grain farming in the Pampas region by moving from grass finishing to grain finishing is collapsing that country's cattle production and is sending domestic meat prices soaring. Inflation is officially at 9.1% but rose by an annual rate of 14% in February due partially to soaring beef prices. The Argentines are the world's largest beef consumers on a per capita basis. Argentine cattlemen say that the government has put a ban on beef exports to try to hold down domestic meat prices. The Argentine government denies this and blames a slow customs service for the lack of exports. Export taxes on grain are a major source of revenue for the government and it has tried to maximize grain exports by putting a price lid on domestic grassfed cattle to encourage the plowing up of permanent pastures and their conversion to grain production. Cattlemen warned that this policy would result in Argentina becoming a net importer of beef rather than a major exporter. They said the fall in domestic production due to the grassfed price controls will result in the loss of abattoirs and beef infrastructure that will take many years to rebuild. Beef cow numbers are expected to fall by four million head in 2010, a decrease of 30 percent!
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Not intending to radically change the subject, but isn't that where the Piedmontese cattle are popular? Or do I have the wrong South AMerican country?

It's been a while, but it seems to me we ate some scrumptios hunks of beef carved off a Piedmontese carcass and slowly roasted on a saber of some sort at a Leachman of MT sale several years ago. I've forgotten whether they were using Piedmontese, or selling semen from the bulls.

mrj
 
Do you realize that the article you posted a link to was published January 1, 2001?

I thought it was strange that it said Lewis Hagen was president of MGI. That was a while back. :wink:


Badlands
 
Badlands said:
Do you realize that the article you posted a link to was published January 1, 2001?

I thought it was strange that it said Lewis Hagen was president of MGI. That was a while back. :wink:


Badlands
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Yep- and since then a lot of US grassland genetics like OCC Headliner 661H (and others including some Pharo bulls) have gone to Argentina/Brazil/S.A.- plus the build up/buy up by the multinational Packers of large investments in Feeding and Packing facilities in those more temperate areas....
 

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