What happened with the sheep in Corrientes? They are leaving along with their producers, as explained by Lucio Aspiazu, producer and former

Published 2025년 11월 26일

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In the south of Corrientes, in the department of Curuzú Cuatiá, there are still corrals with sheep. But above all, there remains the feeling that a historic activity is fading. Lucio Aspiazu, a cattle, sheep, and beef producer, former national deputy, and former president of the Argentine Association of Corriedale Sheep Breeders, explains it. "We are in the south of the province, for those who do not know, it is a department that is purely cattle-raising, it is the second largest in the province, with around 600,000 cattle and at this moment around 250,000 sheep. Previously, it was the department in the Argentine Republic with the most sheep: we reached up to one million sheep," he tells Bichos de Campo. That number sounds distant today. Aspiazu places it in a crisis that accumulated over the years. "It was a consequence over time. I believe that this, the wool crisis that occurred with the Australian markets, which lowered the wool, all that time led people, both in Argentina and ...

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