Someone has to deliver the bad news: Andrés Costamagna warned that if we continue down this path, soon it will not be enough.

Livestock production has been enjoying high prices and this, in turn, has fueled many voices speaking of a "livestock boom" and similar things, much like when we were in the midst of the soybean euphoria. However, the statistics do not support them and, on the contrary, discredit these fabrications. And there are much more serious analysts who sound unappetizing simply because they anticipate that on this path we are heading towards a new crisis, as sooner rather than later the available meat will not be enough to satisfy both the current domestic market demand and exports. One of these necessary "unappetizing" analysts is Andrés Costamagna. In a report published on the Ganados y Carnes website, he anticipated that "the Argentine cattle stock will be less than 51 million heads" by the end of 2025, worsening a declining trend that started in 2020 and does not stop despite the good prices producers are receiving. What Costamagna does every year is analyze the figures of the ...