News of farm

Fernández threatens to raise taxes on farm exports

08-02-2021 11:24 If the farm industry continues to sell food at home for the same prices at which it exports, the government will take matters into its own hands, warns Peronist leader.

AND THAT REMINDS ME...

Grain means pain, corn meets scorn

16-01-2021 09:13 Maize in a maze would be as good a way as any of describing the government’s slapdash suspension of corn exports early in this new year.

by Michael Soltys

AGRICULTURE

Export cap reversal rounds off chaotic week of agro tensions

16-01-2021 08:31 Government responds to three-day strike action with concessions to agricultural producers, removing corn-export block, then cap, before finally agreeing to ‘monitor supplies’ jointly.

THE WEEK

What we learned this week: January 9 to 16

16-01-2021 08:19 The key stories that caught our eye over the last seven days in Argentina.

Bloomberg

Farmers shun government's solution to debt conundrum

16-06-2020 22:28 Agriculture sector lobbying against the government’s proposal to sweeten an offer on its overseas debt restructuring with payments tied to sector's exports.

AGRO POLICY

Farmers unions call four-day strike after rise in soy duties

05-03-2020 21:56 Four producers' unions say they will halt grain and livestock trading for four days and go on strike, starting from Monday, in response to a rise in duties imposed by President Alberto Fernández.

Bloomberg

US dollars can be another obstacle for US-China farm deal targets

05-03-2020 13:37 Crop traders obsessing over the deadly coronavirus in China may be overlooking another key challenge to the Trump administration’s phase one trade deal: the US dollar.

INVESTIGATION

Barros Schelotto, Tevez linked to Macri family wind farm business

28-02-2020 08:00 Former Boca Juniors coach Guillermo Barros Schelotto and star forward Carlos Tevez contributed nearly US$18 million to Macri’s family business, Sideco Americana, which in 2016 acquired six wind farms – purchases that are now being investigated by the courts.

by Emilia Delfino