Fervent defender of the export of live cattle, Uruguayan ruralist Rafael Ferber explains why the Argentine cattle industry

If there is something to acknowledge about Uruguayan livestock farming, it is their ability to sustain their production project over the last two decades and to grow using formulas different from those in Argentina. At least, with unified criteria, guidelines, and basic agreements between politics and production, something that without a doubt could not be sustained in this country except in the short term. One of those state policies of the eastern country is the export of live cattle, a business that contributes more than 350 million dollars a year and is expanding. Annually, no less than between 10 and 15% of the calves leave the country this way, instead of being exported as already industrialized meat, but even so, Uruguayan livestock farming has not lost stock volume nor has it discouraged investment and value addition. Quite the opposite. Although it prefers to stay away from Argentine fluctuations and avoids commenting on the outlandish commercial policies implemented by ...