Under the leitmotiv “Ideas to feed the world”, the Argentinean Government presents the AgTech Week, from August Monday 6th to Friday 10, with the target to boost innovative farming technologies, creating business around them and positioning Argentina as a global leader in this matter. The week starts Monday 6th at Buenos Aires and continues Tuesday at […]
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Buenos Aires, July 4th. The largest Chinese seed company, Longping High Tech Agriculture Co. would be preparing its landing in the Argentinean market in 2019, said local sources to www.eFarmNewsAr.com. It would be the second or third Chinese company in the local seed operation after COFCO acquired Nidera Semillas and then sold it to Syngenta, […]
Gustavo Grobocopatel used to be know as “Argentinean King of the Soybean”. The business of this farmer born at Carlos Casares, a little town in the heart of the Las Pampas, had an fast and incredible growing during middle ’90s and during the first decade of the new century. “Los Grobo”, the name that popularized […]
Buenos Aires, May 24th. The last drought during Argentina’s summer cut 20 million metric tons of soybean harvest but only 7 million of corn. “Farmers realized that corn was the only crop that offered some profit to the operation”, says Leonardo Galli, Regional Sales Manager at KWS local branch. “In some places with adequate rains, they […]
Buenos Aires, May 17th. Bioheuris, the genetic edition start-up based at Rosario (Argentina), reached an agreement with Benson Hill Biosystems (Saint Louis, US) to license them CRISPR 3.0 technology, the ultimate and powerful gene edition tool to develop non-GMO crops. “We define ourselves as a company focused on developing herbicide-tolerance crops by gene edition. Currently, we […]
Buenos Aires, May 17th. Bioheuris, the genetic edition start-up based at Rosario (Argentina), reached an agreement with Benson Hill Biosystems (Saint Louis, US) to license them CRISPR 3.0 technology, the ultimate and powerful gene edition tool to develop non-GMO crops. “We define ourselves as a company focused on developing herbicide-tolerance crops by gene edition. Currently, we […]
Buenos Aires, May 11th. Representative Elisa Carrio (photo), a member of the coalition in charge of Argentinean Government and usual spokeperson, told farmers: “Be patriotic, sell your soybean”, while in the financial market the dollar continued climbing up to a new record. At the beginning of the year, the dollar was traded below AR$18. At […]
Milling industry in Argentina is crossing an unusual situation: wheat prices are higher in the domestic market than in the international ones. “July price in Kansas or Chicago markets are 50 or 60 dollars per tonne below Buenos Aires reference”, says Diego Cifarelli, manager at Argentina Federation of Milling Industry (FAIM). During 2017 and for […]
Buenos Aires, May 4th. In October 2016, the former manager at Monsanto Argentina, Pablo Vaquero, in association with leading agribusiness consulting Cazenave, took control of Genetica Mandiyu (CDM), the unique cotton seed company supplier in the country, belonging to Monsanto. “They had treated to sell it to largest global seed companies, but CDM was a relatively small […]
Gustavo Almassio is an agronomist and a farmer based at La Dulce, a small town in the southeast of the Buenos Aires Province. Six years ago, after resigning to his job in a global company, he thought into developing a value-added business in his farm. He has 330 hectares (815 acres) and loves the cows, but […]