Argentina: Due to lack of fodder more than 2 million liters of milk could be lost

Drought is the most important and pressing problem in the Argentine countryside, with an impact on each of the activities that make up the sector. Such is the case of the dairy, which as a consequence of the lack of rain and the extreme heat will have a considerably lower volume of food for the animals, causing a collapse of between 20% and 35% in milk production for this year. This is indicated by a work by the specialized dairy consultant, Marcos Snyder, published on the DairyLando blog. If it is taken into account that in 2022 a total volume of 10,500 million liters was produced, it could be said that the production losses could amount to between 2,100 and 3,675 million liters, which is, basically, almost all of the country's exportable supply. According to Snyder's work, this collapse in production would be totally linked to the shortage of fodder reserves, especially, to the impossibility of a significant number of producers being able to make corn silage. In his analysis, ...