They inaugurate the first cooperative feedlot in the country to fatten Holando calves from dairy farms in the Córdoba dairy basin.

On June 12, the Livestock Cooperative Union will inaugurate the country's first "cooperative feedlot". Uncoga is a second-degree cooperative that brings together nine base entities from Santa Fe and eastern Córdoba. "The decision was made to generate a feedlot that will be supplied with Holstein calves (from regional dairy farms). It will be the first cooperative feedlot in the country," said Raúl Cagliero, director of Sodecar, a Cycle 2 slaughterhouse, also affiliated with Uncoga, and president of the Santa Fe Slaughterhouse Chamber (Cafrisa). "With this, we aim to provide a solution for dairy farmers linked to these cooperatives. Livestock is already being brought in, with 700 calves being fattened on a capacity of 1,000," he added. Uncoga is composed of the Guillermo Lehmann Cooperative, and the cooperatives of Porteña, Freire, Morteros, Sunchales, Ceres, Humbrerto 1º, and Bernardo de Irigoyen. The feedlot is located in the town of Humboldt. According to Cagliero, "We started ...