A price boom is coming: why there will be more meat shortages in 2026

Rafael Tardáguila is Uruguayan, an agricultural engineer, director of the Tardáguila Agromercados group and editor of World Beef Report, a reference publication in international meat markets. Due to his daily contact with global players in the business and his years of participation in the most important international fairs in the world, such as Anuga (Germany) or SIAL Shanghai, he spoke with +P about the upheavals in the international meat business in 2025, the outlook for 2026, the changing trend in the perception of beef, the strengths and weaknesses of Argentine beef in the international market, the opportunity that opens for Mercosur, vaccination against foot-and-mouth disease, and the export of live cattle. —This year international trade has been greatly shaken, especially by Donald Trump's tariff advance and China's response, a battle that now seems to have calmed down. How have these measures affected the beef business? —I think that what this has brought most of all is ...