South American soy producers ally “to avoid buyers’ manipulation”

Saturday, October 23rd 2010 - 03:21 UTC

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Argentina and Brazil are negotiating an alliance with other South American producers of grains and oilseeds to deal jointly with buyers in Asia and elsewhere, according to Brazilian Agriculture Minister Wagner Rossi. Read full article

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Think
The OSEC is born.... (Organisation Soy Exporting Countries)
Under the auspices of Mercosur...
When Chile and Peru join Mercosur...
The OCEC willbe born... (Organisation Copper Exporting Countries)

Feels good to gain some control .......
Oct 23rd, 2010 - 04:05 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Hoytred
Looks to me like you'll soon be up to your eyes in initials :-)

And I'm sure you meant “ Feels good to grain some control” - :-))

Beware the cunning asians .... they're inscrutable ..........
Oct 23rd, 2010 - 04:20 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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fredbdc
It is like South Americans in a fantasy world, is it going to work like Mercosur the supposed “ south american free trade zone”? Where everyone charges import/export fees, has their own rules and blocks others imports when convenient? Plus without having the largest exporter of SOY (the USA) it's like having OPEC without Saudi Arabia, another meaningless trade group.
Oct 23rd, 2010 - 11:26 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Pheel
Pure Michael Porter´s logic: let´s improve bargaining capabilities by volume in order to retain as much of possible of this market profitability.

And agree with last Hoyt´s.

On agricultural commodities, the bargaining will not be against USA, but taking in account the inscrutable´s strategies. Probably we will work together with the Corn Belt. The game is to obtain as much as possible from chinese development.
Oct 23rd, 2010 - 02:04 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Think
OCSEC ! (Organisation Common Sense Exporting Countries)
Oct 23rd, 2010 - 02:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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xbarilox
Why do Mexicans sneak across the border?
Oct 23rd, 2010 - 04:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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fredbdc
Xbox, they sneak into o my wonderful country to live a much better life. Don't you have any relatives cleaning pools or painting in Miami? Ask them why they came here.
Oct 23rd, 2010 - 05:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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