News of grains

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.

AGRO TENSIONS

Amid tension, Farming groups call three-day halt to grain trading

09-01-2021 07:37 Three-day stoppage next week called by three of four main agricultural groups to protest suspension of maize exports.

EXPROPRIATION OF VICENTIN

Setback for government as Vicentin executives reinstated by judge

20-06-2020 10:37 Judge in Santa Fe Province reinstates ousted executives and says government officials should only perform a supervisory role in bid to leave bankruptcy behind.

EXPROPRIATION OF VICENTIN

Vicentin’s expropriation and how to break bad news

20-06-2020 09:26 A Peronist expropriation, and maybe even nationalisation, sounds like the best way to burn a lot of money straight into inefficient bureaucracy and corruption.

by Agustino Fontevecchia

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.

BLOOMBERG

Government mulls export sweetener to bridge gap with creditors

09-06-2020 18:13 Officials may offer warrants linked to agricultural exports to close the gap with top creditors in debt restructuring talks and the idea is gathering support among bondholders, Bloomberg reports.