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Prime yearlings touching US$180/kg http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/040210/argentina___record_prices_for_live_cattle_on_wednesday.aspx newsroom - meattradenewsdaily.co.uk Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT The head of the world's biggest meat group has joined critics of the regime of Argentina's president, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, saying her farm policies are holding back growth in the beef sector. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/090310/argentina____government_holding_back_the_beef_sector.aspx newsroom - meattradenewsdaily.co.uk Sun, 14 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT Argentina’s opposition senators on Wednesday won majority control of all the chamber’s committees, undermining President Cristina Fernandez’s de Kirchner’s ability to pass legislation more than two years after she took office. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/110310/argentina___opposition_has_majority_in_both_congress_houses.aspx MercoPress.com Sun, 14 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT Scarce supplies of Argentinean beef in the EU (Argentina’s highest value export market) are increasingly being replaced by other suppliers’ products. The tighter supply from Argentina is due to the significant reduction in the number of export certificates issued by the local government. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/050310/argentina___argentinean_limited__beef_supplies_affects_european_menus.aspx MLA.com Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT The head of the world's biggest meat group has joined critics of the regime of Argentina's president, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, saying her farm policies are holding back growth in the beef sector. JBS chief executive Joesley Mendonca Batista said that the group's Argentine division, which it had felt had been "turning a corner", had been undermined by "unpredictable conditions" which were likely to hit profits again this year. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/080310/argentina___jbs_boss_joins_critics_of_argentine_farm_policy.aspx newsroom - meattradenewsdaily.co.uk Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT Argentina assigned a further 10% of the lucrative Hilton Quota for beef exports to local slaughterhouses Tuesday, bringing the total amount of the 2009-10 quota already doled out to 40%. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/110310/argentina___the_hilton_quota.aspx newsroom - meattradenewsdaily.co.uk Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT The head of the world's biggest meat group has joined critics of the regime of Argentina's president, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, saying her farm policies are holding back growth in the beef sector. JBS chief executive Joesley Mendonca Batista said that the group's Argentine division, which it had felt had been "turning a corner", had been undermined by "unpredictable conditions" which were likely to hit profits again this year. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/160310/argentina___joesley_mendoca_batistajbs_joined_critics_of_the_regime_of_argentinas_president_.aspx newsroom - meattradenewsdaily.co.uk Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT Argentina assigned a further 10% of the lucrative Hilton Quota for beef exports to local slaughterhouses Tuesday, bringing the total amount of the 2009-10 quota already doled out to 40%. The Hilton Quota allows Argentina to ship 28,000 metric tons of high-grade beef to the European Union each year with sharply lower tariffs. The quota runs from July 1 to June 30. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/040310/argentina____more_of_hilton_quota_released_.aspx newsroom - meattradenewsdaily.co.uk Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT Argentine beef exports slumped in January as the government stalled shipments to increase domestic supply in the face of soaring local prices http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/070310/argentina___drop_in_beef_exports_.aspx newsroom - meattradenewsdaily.co.uk Sun, 07 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT No permits no beef exports http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/260210/argentina___no_permits_no_beef_exports.aspx newsroom - meattradenewsdaily.co.uk Sat, 06 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT The epic political confrontation looming this week notwithstanding, the wettest February ever calls for some editorial comment — not least because this issue has also been politicized http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/040310/argentina___the_dat_that_the_rains_came_down_.aspx buenosairesherald Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT Argentina’s former president Nestor Kirchner purchased two million US dollars just a few days after the collapse of Lehman Brothers in September 2008 which triggered the current world downturn and when the government of President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (his wife) was under extreme pressure to devalue the currency. The information was revealed, with documents, over the weekend by Buenos Aires media following on tips of outgoing Central Bank president Martin Perez Redrado who lost his ongoing battle with the Kirchner administration to remain in the bank. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/020310/argentina___argentinas_former_president_nestor_kirchner_linked_to_lehman_collapse.aspx MercoPress.com Tue, 02 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT Life’s big ironies. The man the government accuses of having plunged the nation into ruin was precisely the one who, by means of his absence in a key vote in the Senate yesterday, helped President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner to deal a heavy blow to the opposition http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/050310/argentina___money_buys_anything_.aspx buenosairesherald Tue, 02 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT Federal Judge María Romilda Servini de Cubría, in charge of Federal Court N°1, is to examine the already-reported accusation against President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/020310/argentina___president_investigated_for_fraud_.aspx buenosairesherald Tue, 02 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT Argentina’s record soybean crop may yield less than expected as continued downpours threaten to cause beans to rot and fungal diseases to spread, according to a Buenos Aires Cereals Exchange official quoted on Monday. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/020310/argentina___rain_threatening_argentinas_record_soybean_crop.aspx MercoPress.com Tue, 02 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT Supermarket sales grew 11.4 percent in January compared to the same month last year and registered a 4.3 percent increase compared to December 2009, reported the Indec national statistics bureau http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/050310/argentina___supermarkets_sales_grow__in_value_yet_drop__in_amounts_sold.aspx newsroom - meattradenewsdaily.co.uk Tue, 02 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT The Argentinean beef industry is concerned that their 28,000 tonne “Hilton” High Quality Beef quota will not be filled in 2009-10, as a result of government delays in distributing the allocations among exporters. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/260210/argentinea____hilton_beef_exports_slump.aspx newsroom - meattradenewsdaily.co.uk Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT An investigation carried out by the oil company Pan American Energy (PAE), at the behest of the Santa Cruz Fisheries Subsecretariat, contends that the capture of common hake (Merluccius hubbsi) has spiked in the San Jorge Gulf fishing-ground. The results of the study contradict claims by the yellow fleet fishers of Caleta Paula, who complain of a smaller abundance of the resource http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/220210/argentina____report_refutes_drop_in_hake_stocks.aspx buenosairesherald Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT Argentinean beef consumption is estimated to drop to 50kg cwt per capita (from 70kg cwt in 2009) as a result of the estimated drop in beef production in 2010 http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/250210/argentina____beef_consumption_to_drop_in__as_prices_surge.aspx MLA.com Sun, 28 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT After a new wave of protests that took place yesterday in the town of Chabás, located on the south of Santa Fe province, the farming sector is now threatening with move forward on their producer's protests and stop the commercialization of products. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/180210/argentina___farm_dispute_flairs_up_again_.aspx buenosairesherald Sun, 28 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT Farmer Alfredo de Angeli, head of the Small Farmers' Association in Entre Ríos, blamed President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner's administration "measure" for the increase in meat prices and said that it is a "ridiculous thing to assure that the cattle is forced to stay in the fields in order to gain weight," as the President had expressed some days before http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/230210/argentina___farmers_defend_meat_prices_.aspx buenosairesherald Sun, 28 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT A consumer group had called on Argentines, world leaders in beef consumption, to boycott the meat for a week in an effort to lower prices, according to news reports http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/250210/argentina___argentine_consumers_boycott_meat_to_force_lower_prices.aspx MercoPress.com Sat, 27 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT Financier Soros warns about future of the Euro and Euro-zone The Euro risks falling apart unless Euro-zone member nations alter the way they tackle future debt crises, financier George Soros warned Monday in an article published in the Financial Times http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/020310/argentina___land_owner_and_farmer_george_soros_warning_over_europe_.aspx MercoPress.com Sat, 27 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT Argentina is enduring its biggest inflation surge to start the year in two decades, posing a challenge for the government's newly named central bank president who is viewed skeptically by financial markets http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/270210/argentina___the_worlds_highest_inflation_.aspx wall street journal Sat, 27 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT Judges in the National Federal Contentious Administrative Court Jorge Morán, Luis María Márquez and Sergio Fernández accepted the government's request to let the Supreme Court solve the dispute surrounding the validity of the DNU emergency decree that created the Bicentennial Fund http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/040310/argentina___judges_reject_government_looting_the_central_bank_funds_.aspx newsroom - meattradenewsdaily.co.uk Fri, 26 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT After a new wave of protests that took place yesterday in the town of Chabás, located on the south of Santa Fe province, the farming sector is now threatening with move forward on their producer's protests and stop the commercialization of products http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/250210/argentina___farmers_promise_drastic_measures_.aspx buenosairesherald Thu, 25 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT A consumer group called for their fellow Argentineans to boycott the meat for a week in an effort to lower prices, CNN news reports said http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/240210/argentina___argentine_group_calls_for_beef_boycott.aspx newsroom - meattradenewsdaily.co.uk Wed, 24 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT Argentine ports received 9,246.4 tons of common hake (Merluccius hubbsi) between January 1 and February 12 this year which is 60% less than the 23,200 tons for the same period a year ago http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/240210/argentine____the_hake_catches_down__.aspx MercoPress.com Wed, 24 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT Plentiful rains are anticipating excellent summer crops in Argentina both for maize and soy beans according to the Buenos Aires Cereals Stock market and the US Department of Agriculture, USDA, estimates http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/190210/argentina____record_soy_bean_crop_for_argentina.aspx MercoPress.com Tue, 23 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT Farmers retain cattle in the fields because it has rained and put on weight, said the Argentine president http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/180210/argentina___mrs_kirchner_and_farmers_clash_over_soaring_meat_prices.aspx MercoPress.com Tue, 23 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT Argentina may limit beef exports for as long as three months in a bid to help bring domestic food prices down http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/220210/argentina___beef_exports_could_be_halted_.aspx bloomberg Mon, 22 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT Three days after a consumers' group called for a meat boycott, the head of Argentina's beef industry said Thursday prices will fall by week's end http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/280210/argentina___beef_to_expensive_for_shoppers_.aspx newsroom - meattradenewsdaily.co.uk Mon, 22 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT After a new wave of protests that took place yesterday in the town of Chabás, located on the south of Santa Fe province, the farming sector is now threatening with move forward on their producer's protests and stop the commercialization of products http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/240210/argentina___farm_dispute_fares_up_again_.aspx buenosairesherald Mon, 22 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT Head of the Argentine Rural Society Hugo Biolcatti said today's Liaison Committee meeting "would not involve discussions" over future strikes or demonstrations http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/260210/argentina___farmers_look_at_what_action_to_take_.aspx buenosairesherald Mon, 22 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT Buenos Aires province and City inhabitants will have to go through another day of rains, drizzle and isolated storms today. The highest temperatures are expected to reach 26°C. Yesterday, a thunderstorm caused floodings, blackouts and traffic jams. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/220210/argentina___floods_hit_argentina_.aspx buenosairesherald Mon, 22 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT This came after a meeting between President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner and farmers' representatives deteriorated into an angry war of words over who is to blame for higher beef prices http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/210210/argentina____the_government_has_courted_more_controversy_over_beef_prices_.aspx newsroom - meattradenewsdaily.co.uk Sun, 21 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT Argentina will cut consumption of red meat by 25 percent this year as falling supplies cause prices to surge, said Miguel Schiareti, vice president of the Meat Industry Chamber http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/210210/argentina___argentines_the_worlds_biggest_beef_eaters_.aspx newsroom - meattradenewsdaily.co.uk Sun, 21 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT A consumer group had called on Argentines, world leaders in beef consumption, to boycott the meat for a week in an effort to lower prices, according to news reports The price of beef has increased 140% to 150% since December, said the Association of Free Consumers, which called for the boycott which begun this week. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/180210/argentina___boycott_of_butchers_shops_to_start_on_monday_.aspx MercoPress.com Sun, 21 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT Farmer Alfredo de Angeli, head of the Small Farmers' Association in Entre Ríos, blamed President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner's administration "measure" for the increase in meat prices and said that it is a "ridiculous thing to assure that the cattle is forced to stay in the fields in order to gain weight," as the President had expressed some days before http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/230210/argentina___farmers_defend_meat_prices.aspx buenosairesherald Sun, 21 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT Uruguayan president elect captivates audience of Argentine businesspeople http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/190210/_argentina___busieness_investors_leaving_in_droves.aspx MercoPress.com Sat, 20 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT Argentina's government has courted more controversy after a meeting between President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner and farmers' representatives deteriorated into an angry war of words over who is to blame for higher beef prices. The government is already embroiled in http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/120210/argentina___beef_prices_rise__since_december.aspx newsroom - meattradenewsdaily.co.uk Sat, 20 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT Argentine consumers expect inflation in next 12 months to reach 130% http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/260210/argentina___government_in_denial_over_inflation_.aspx newsroom - meattradenewsdaily.co.uk Sat, 20 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT A consumer group called for their fellow Argentineans to boycott the meat for a week in an effort to lower prices, CNN news reports said. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/180210/argentina___shoppers_boycott_beef_.aspx newsroom - meattradenewsdaily.co.uk Sat, 20 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT Argentines, the world’s biggest beef eaters, will cut consumption of red meat by 25 percent this year as falling supplies cause prices to surge, said Miguel Schiareti, vice president of the Meat Industry Chamber http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/190210/argentina___beef_prices_rise.aspx newsroom - meattradenewsdaily.co.uk Fri, 19 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT After a new wave of protests that took place yesterday in the town of Chabás, located on the south of Santa Fe province, the farming sector is now threatening with move forward on their producer's protests and stop the commercialization of products. Yesterday's protest, that had been summoned to rally by the Argentine Agrarian Federation (FAA) and joined by producers from the north of Buenos Aires and other provinces, claimed for a change in agricultural policies. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/180210/argentina___farmers_promise_drastic_measures_against_government_.aspx buenosairesherald Thu, 18 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT The Santa Fe province senator blasted the Kirchner administration again when he said that "policies implemented on the production sector (agricultural, livestock and dairy) have been disastrous," and added that the situation in the farming sector "has gotten worse" http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/160210/argentina___long_knives_out_for_farmers_.aspx buenosairesherald Tue, 16 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT Argentina's government has courted more controversy after a meeting between President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner and farmers' representatives deteriorated into an angry war of words over who is to blame for higher beef prices http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/190210/argentina___beef_prices_rise_.aspx newsroom - meattradenewsdaily.co.uk Mon, 15 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT Until this week the Cristina Fernández de Kirchner administration has done the impossible in denying the reality of inflation, even if it is the talking-point in most conversations and even if the collective wage bargaining season is right on top of us, but the self-deception has become unsustainable with various ultra-loyalists now lining up to recognize the obvious http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/150210/argentina___beef_prices_triple_in_six_weeks.aspx buenosairesherald Mon, 15 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner’s administration has slowed the issuance of beef export permits since December in an effort to stem price increases http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/210210/argentina___no_export_permits_.aspx bloomberg Mon, 15 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT Farmers retain cattle in the fields because it has rained and put on weight, said the Argentine president http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/110210/argentina___mrs_kirchner_and_farmers_clash_over_soaring_meat_prices.aspx MercoPress.com Sun, 14 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT