Interview: Ag, Policy, Exports in Argentina
The television interview is in Spanish. The print has been translated to English from the original Spanish at BCR News where it appeared originally on...
Argentina
Argentina is Saying Hello to the World Again
We’re saying hello to the world again. That’s the simplest way to understand last month’s elections in Argentina, in which the party of reform-minded Preside...
Advocating for Agriculture On A Changing Planet
My father with a group of farmers worried about soils in Argentina stopped centuries of unintentional agricultural degradation by changing the way they farmed t...
2016 – Maria Giraudo, Argentina
Kleckner Award Winner Passionate About No-Till, Telling the Ag Story Maria Giraudo loves what she does, and receiving an award for what she loves is, in her ...
Bad Policy Can Create An Unnatural Agriculture Disaster
My home of Argentina is one of the world’s great breadbaskets. This nation of around 40 million people can feed more than 400 million, making farmers like me es...
MERCOSUR Increases Tariffs on Industrial Products
The four member countries, Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay of MERCOSUR (Common Market of the South) have agreed to increase import tariffs to 35 percent...
Almost a U.S. Free Trade Agreement with Colombia
The U.S.-Colombia free trade agreement completed in November of 2006 has been withheld from the U.S. Congressional approval process because of concerns over ...
2009 – Jim McCarthy, Ireland
Des Moines, Iowa – Jim McCarthy thrives on change. An early “change” in his life was to shed his “towny” roots, and concentrate his studies on becoming a farm m...
Farmers Feed the World
The Chinese were once the world’s greatest seafarers. A few people even think they reached the west coast of North America before Columbus sailed the ...
Argentina’s cattle crisis
CNNMoney.com / Fortune
By Telis Demos, writer-reporter
August 11, 2009
http://money.cnn.com A spike in prices is threatening the world's most beef-depend...