"Hard cheeses have become a luxury when before they were something normal": Alarmed by the drop in consumption and the exp

Federico Boglione is the CEO of Los Lazos, a company that engages in livestock farming, agriculture, dairy farming, animal feed, and also owns a dairy industry, La Sibila, focused on the production of powdered milk for export. Under the Purísima brand, it also manufactures high-value-added breast milk. At the Agribusiness Congress held on Thursday by the consultancy Agroeducación at the Rosario Stock Exchange, an institution whose president was his father, Boglione shared his vision on the situation of the dairy chain and the industry in particular. The first point he highlighted was the notable drop in international milk prices. “It keeps falling continuously. It is already at 3400/3500 dollars per ton when a few months ago it was 4200. The drop was very large and there is no consumption, especially of products with added value,” he warned. As an alarming fact, he mentioned that Brazil is also growing in milk production and drying, generating greater internal supply and achieving ...