Tired of talking about consolidation in the dairy industry, the news now is that in 2024, for the first time, Argentina has fewer than 10,000 active dairy farms

Bichos de Campo almost obsessively disseminates information from the OCLA (Observatory of the Dairy Chain) regarding the structure of milk production, because behind these cold figures there are a lot of human stories, many of great sacrifice but many more of failure. If one thinks about it in terms of roots in the rural environment, of people who live in the countryside, the statistics that show milk production in fewer and fewer hands are chilling. Citing Senasa records, the OCLA publishes this graph that reveals that for the first time in recent history the number of dairy farms in Argentina is less than 10,000 production units. There are exactly 9,735 dairy farms left standing. The drop compared to 2023 reaches 4.5%. Quite an achievement for the first year of a management, that of Javier Milei, who prides himself on not intervening in the markets and dismantling all types of active public policy. All this is happening in a year where milk production, from January to October, ...