MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
World soy production forecasted to fall next season; Argentina could be the exception
World soybean production will fall next season for the first time in four years, undermined by a drop in US output, although the fall may not prove sufficient to support prices, Oil World said. However in South America, Argentina and Paraguay could be heading for new record crops. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesI guess that blows Yankeeboys predictions out of the water.
Apr 07th, 2015 - 12:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0He predicted farmers would be ploughing the soy into the ground by now.
The dry weather we have had here nearly all summer has helped.
Actually what I said was any increase in planting could not compensate for the decrease in price.
Apr 07th, 2015 - 12:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0As you can see I was right again.
From what I hear the Arg farmers are using even less fertilizer and more pesticides this year. Eventually they're going to exhaust the soil.
Shouldn't be too long now.
2 YB
Apr 07th, 2015 - 03:41 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Oh yeah. Wishful thinking.
“The dead that you killed are in good health.”
(Los muertos que vos matáis gozan de buena salud).
Reekie, You need to read a bit about the country you left 40 yrs ago.
Apr 07th, 2015 - 07:34 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Are you really this stupid in real life?
I doubt you are bright enough to read this but here you go anyway:
https://www.oas.org/dsd/publications/Unit/oea66e/ch09.htm
Google: pampas desertification
Read the links for a few days then maybe we can chat.
Stupid fool
#4 YB
Apr 07th, 2015 - 10:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Caring for the land that feeds us is a worthwhile topic that I do not feel like discussing with a bitter, uneducated person unable to have normal dialogue.
Erosion is indeed a problem that Argentina must address; however your hopes of this and other calamities just about to befall on Argentina are just an expression of your mind; a mind that is in bad need of healing.
I guess that article is way over your head.
Apr 07th, 2015 - 11:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0That's what I thought.
So predictable.
YB those reports predate the introduction of NO-TILL farming in the early 1990s. Back then you had to plow a lot more than nowadays to make a crop. We have since then in Pampean lands developed acidity as they have not replenished the minerals with fertilizers and a dense compacted layer of soil beneath the 15 cm, and that is why you see in the news problems of drainage and severe flooding. The rains are not that extraordinary out of the historic median.
Apr 07th, 2015 - 11:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Argentine farmers don’t have the cost structure that enables a Paratill go by from time to time… How about in the US? I would like to know.
Which is exactly what I said in Post #2 above.
Apr 07th, 2015 - 11:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The bad gov't policies are making it unprofitable in the long term.
There's plenty of recognition on what's going on in Argentina's farm land.
And none of it is good news.
Paratill is a modern day vertical plow, not a fertilizer nor a herbicide.
Apr 08th, 2015 - 01:39 am - Link - Report abuse 0To put it as simple as I can, over plowing was the problem pre 1990s (desertification or really loss of organic matter you mention for Pampean areas) no plowing at all + monocrop seems to be the problem now (acidification and compactation).
No till farming technology saved the Pampas in the 90s from a break point.
Thanks to the neoliberal policies of Menem that enabled the introduction just in time. If not it would be a barren wasteland nowadays in perpetual sandstorms today and CFK the whore would have never being president with no soy export money.
Forget 'soy'..
Apr 08th, 2015 - 04:23 am - Link - Report abuse 0Do you still sell Mangoes?
I always enjoy when a Man goes to do my bidding.
Enough of this 'yo soy' talk, you self-centered pricks...
I don't care for Soy.
Go get me some mango juice, I hear it is good for my skin...
10.
Apr 08th, 2015 - 02:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Im a bit confused as to which side of the counter you want me on...
Plus it freezes here in winter!
I think you are imagining it as a Venezuelan street market.
Up north mangoes, avocados, bananas, cocaine and all the stuff you would be more familiar with from Vzla and they are really cheap when you buy them at the farmers or just drive by the highway they sell the boxes of them. I don’t know why the produce is so expensive when it arrives at the central cities. There is really a big problem of distribution, lack of competitiveness and transport
Jus' messin'...
Apr 08th, 2015 - 11:04 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Was feeling a bit irreverent when I posted that...
Thats because you need some love, not mango juice!
Apr 09th, 2015 - 02:00 am - Link - Report abuse 0And Jesus loves you. Or so they say.
;-)
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