How does a medium to small-scale producer survive, which has increasingly tight numbers? "By diversifying, not staying

Within the productive enterprise that brothers Victorio and Vicente Magliano own in the Cordoba town of Laboulaye, ingenuity has become one of the fundamental pillars of their survival. While in another era the 358 hectares they manage as a family would have left them with a reasonable economic situation, the present forces them to think of strategies to stay afloat and not part with the land that their grandfather once cultivated. “The field has a spectacular type of soil for our area, totally agricultural if we wanted it to be. We manage it mixed to defend ourselves a bit and mitigate the ups and downs of agriculture. We do a bit of everything. There is no other option but to diversify,” Victorio defined in conversation with Bichos de Campo. This led them to have some breeding, re-breeding, and fattening, and to do some agriculture both to feed the cattle and to sell. “What is close to the field is brought to the feedlot and sold as meat. And what is far away, given the cost of ...