Buenos Aires | Reuters — Argentina extended beef export restrictions until the end of October on Tuesday, stoking tensions with the powerful farm sector as the government seeks to bolster domestic meat supply to help contain rising food prices. The move comes months before key mid-term elections, with centre-left President Alberto Fernandez keen to avoid […] Read more
Argentina extends beef export cap, stoking farm tensions
Move seen as 'giving markets to other countries'
Tensions build over Argentina’s beef export ban
Rural associations pledge pause in livestock trading
Buenos Aires | Reuters — Argentine farm groups will halt trading of livestock in protest against a 30-day government ban on beef exports aimed at bringing down domestic prices, the country’s main producer groups said in a joint statement Tuesday. The South American country’s centre-left Peronist government unveiled the ’emergency measure’ to tamp down high […] Read more
Protests at key Argentina port cause ag export headaches
A spike in shipping costs and lower profits resulting from a series of union protests at Argentina’s Rosario port, one of the world’s biggest grain export centres, has raised concerns among the country’s agricultural companies. Strikes by powerful unions representing river pilots, longshoremen and soy crushing workers have been frequent at the port, about 300 […] Read more
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