SAN CARLOS DE BARILOCHE.- With the aim of promoting new commercialization spaces for producers in the area, the first general livestock auction in the Andean Region of Río Negro was held in this city: 900 animals were sold for around $1,300,000,000. More than 40 producers –many of them small– participated in this first experience that brought together animals from Comallo, Pilcaniyeu, Ingeniero Jacobacci, Maquinchao, El Foyel, El Manso, Mallín Ahogado, Bariloche, and El Bolsón. Urgent contact over scrapie: the beef industry revealed what will happen with a coveted export business The auction was organized together with the Rural Society of Bariloche and the consignee firm Otermin–Massini, which contributed its operational, logistical structure, and network of buyers. The Minister of Economic and Productive Development of Río Negro, Carlos Banacloy, highlighted that it was a “historic” day, which is “the result of a work that has been promoting together with the sector, with the ...