Feedlots: numbers that start to raise alarm in Argentina

The slaughter data for the month of July confirm a total of 1,252,127 heads processed in the last month, a figure that compared to July of last year is 3% lower and that in the first seven months of the year accumulates a total of 7,812,147 heads, reflecting a drop of almost 10 points compared to what was recorded in the same period of a year ago. Based on these numbers and in a climate-friendly scenario much more favorable than the one recorded last year, the growing participation of the feedlot within the fattening and finishing processes is surprising. According to the statistics published by SENASA based on the DTe, it is known that, in the first seven months of this year, 2,800,665 animals passed through the feedlots, which, measured on the animals slaughtered in the same period, represent 36% of the total, marking a linearly increasing trend in the last five years. In turn, this percentage exceeds last year's record by 2 points, given in a context of severe drought where the ...