Buenos Aires | Reuters – Argentina has cut its soybean export tax to 29.5 percent from a previous 30 percent, the first step in a plan to gradually reduce the […] Read more
Argentina begins phasing in cuts to soybean export tax
Argentina declares flood emergency in six key farm provinces
Buenos Aires | Reuters — Six of Argentina’s main farm provinces were declared flood emergency areas by the government on Friday, making special credit lines and tax breaks available to […] Read more
Argentine corn sowing booms on optimism over new government
Buenos Aires | Reuters — A late-season corn planting flurry in No. 4 world exporter Argentina could push output to the same level as the previous crop year, thanks to […] Read more
Devalued Argentine peso seen spurring grain exports
Buenos Aires | Reuters — The currency devaluation set to kick off in Argentina on Thursday is expected to pump millions of tonnes of pent-up grains supply into the international […] Read more
Argentina’s Macri ditches wheat, corn, beef export taxes
Buenos Aires | Reuters –– Argentine President Mauricio Macri said he would sign a decree on Monday eliminating corn and wheat export taxes as part of his plan to revitalize […] Read more
Argentina halts Europe-bound rice ‘impregnated with cocaine’
Buenos Aires | Reuters — Argentine customs agents found about 30 kg of cocaine hidden in a way they had never seen before when drug-sniffing dogs found the drug had […] Read more
El Nino seen pushing Argentina into planting more soy, less corn
Buenos Aires | Reuters — The El Nino weather phenomenon is expected to start dumping torrential rains on Argentina next month, pushing farmers to plant more low-cost soy and less […] Read more
Farmers in soy powerhouse Argentina start five-day sales strike
Buenos Aires | Reuters — Argentine farmers started a five-day crop sales strike on Monday, part of an election-year push in the world’s No. 3 soybean exporter to change policies […] Read more
Argentine soy stocks double as farmer-government tensions rise
Buenos Aires | Reuters –– Argentine farmers have stockpiled more than twice as much soy this year than last, defying a government desperate to increase export tax revenue needed to […] Read more
Argentina tracks soy hoarding by registering silo bag sales
Buenos Aires | Reuters — Argentina will keep an eye on how much soy is being hoarded on farms throughout the country by requiring that the sales of silo bags […] Read more
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