The first cooperative feedlot in the country was inaugurated in Humboldt, and it is a complete invitation to come and make "a g

A clear, cold, and windy day provided the ideal setting this Thursday for the inauguration of the country's first cooperative feedlot. The initiative, developed over the past two years and now a reality, belongs to Uncoga, the Agricultural Cooperatives Federation Limited, which brings together nine cooperatives from central Santa Fe and Córdoba. Specifically in the town of Humboldt, in the Santa Fe department of Las Colonias, on a rented 8-hectare field, 600 of the first 1,000 Argentine Holstein calves, born in members' dairy farms, have already entered the corrals. They arrived with an average weight of 190 kilos two months ago and will be fattened to supply meat to the domestic market through Uncoga's own sales points. With individual animal tracking, an adapted feedlot operating system, and information to improve breeding and rearing levels as an alternative for dairy farms, this site is projected to triple its current capacity. It addresses all animal welfare and environmental ...