High prices are not everything: The coordinator of the Meat Table, Dardo Chiesa, warns that the livestock "boom" is not sustainable.

-Does a livestock plan or price stimulation suffice for Argentina to become a livestock power?-, that was the central question that Bichos de Campo had prepared for the coordinator of the National Meat Table, Dardo Chiesa. “I have long wanted to answer that question,” expressed the rural leader, to explain why “there is no correlation” between good prices and an increase in livestock stock. For Chiesa, the solution to this livestock “boom” would not naturally be towards a structural improvement in the sector. The Meat Table was born in 2015 and has several times brought ambitious projects to the policy (whatever the government in power), but all those folders have so far been doomed to long naps on desks. Faced with that delayed discussion between the “invisible hand” of the market and a sectoral plan, Chiesa assures that there is something that is always overlooked, a structural weakness that does not yield even with the best prices. Watch the complete interview with Dardo ...