When Daniel Solís studied the different ways of working with genetic material to improve sheep ranches in an agrotechnical school in the Chubut town of Sarmiento, he never thought that he himself would become the protagonist of a breeding project in Patagonia, with which he would introduce a Texel variant that until then had not been developed in the country, and even win awards. For about 30 years, Solís worked on assembling a flock of this meat breed, more associated with the provinces of Buenos Aires, Corrientes, and Córdoba, in an area where wool production dominates with the Merino and Corriedale breeds. A native of Aldea Las Pampas, a village with no more than 150 inhabitants, the producer was convinced that obtaining meat could be key to boosting the development of those small Patagonian towns. But the task of introducing new genetic lines was not easy. The first Texel sheep he obtained, at his Las Margaritas farm, were through the "absorption" of some animals that entered ...