He extraordinary “momentum” of the livestock creates a real one Technology boom. The star of the moment is “Feedlotization”, under the protection of a price ratio between beef and grain that can no longer be remembered.
It is a global phenomenon where, on the one hand The grain supply is at a very high level. Especially in the case of soy, which doesn’t have much to do with meat, but does have a connection with corn, the feed grain par excellence. What’s happening is that agricultural prices are being defined in Chicago, the epicenter of the corn and soybean belt, where both are grains compete for land use. When the price of corn falls, there is a tendency to grow more soybeans, causing prices to react in parallel.
In short, grain is at historically low levels. In the meantime, Livestock and meat reached historic highs in 2025. And although they have eased somewhat now, both the price of the feed cattle and the value of the live cattle are very high. The fat started the year at $180 per hundred pounds ($4 per live kilo), reached 250 and closed yesterday at 230, well over $5. They are missing cows, they are missing calves, they are missing fat people. Lack of meat.
Of course, these values are much higher than those here. Meat is expensive in the United States and that’s it led to the Trump administration becoming angry with its ranchers and meat packerswhere there is a strong presence of foreign companies (primarily Brazilian, but also Chinese). It’s something encouraged him to open the import quota for Argentine meat with low tariffs, which would increase from 20,000 to 80,000 tons.
I’m going down into this pampa, Here the bull market is above $3 and there is nothing to suggest it could fall. For corn, whose domestic price is above export parity, the relationship is attractive. With a conversion of 7:1 or 8:1 we are around 20 kilos of corn per kilo of meat depending on the weight of the fattened animal and the efficiency of the process.
This reinvigorates the debate about the different fattening alternatives. Thirty years ago, when the Corral tendencysome They thought it was a fad. However, It was something unstoppable, because the new agricultural technology promised a very rapid increase in yields.. With a historical average of 35 quintals per hectare, grazing livestock competed well with agriculture. But with the introduction of RR soybeans and the new package of simple, half-toothed hybrids with a strong response to fertilization, cleaner fields thanks to the new crop rotation, low direct costs, etc., traditional overwintering has been kept at bay. The same thing happened with the dairy farm, which quickly set up pens with preserved feed.with the enormous jump that the corn silo meant.
With classic overwintering with strategic supplementation, the front runners achieved 600 kilos of meat per hectare. A load of corn 90 quintalsas is the case in most parts of the Pampas region 1,500 kilos of meat. With other costs it is true. But 35% of the cost is the same land (rental value), which must be accounted for in both systems.
We invented the bagged wet grain silo, a world first which was also adopted to supplement mixed systems. Especially in the cramped conditions of those who do full cycle and farming. The pasture silo and the Silopaq were addedwith the revival it is experiencing with the help of Yomel with its baler/packaging machine. In the Salado Basin, a traditional breeding area, there are now enclosures of Rounded off with finely chopped wheatgrass silage.
All of this was already coming together. The pampas landscape changed. But the price improvement is leaving livestock farmers with a fork in hand. The business of the eternal future seems to be transferring to Earth.
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