Between January and May, cattle slaughter increased by 12% year-on-year, according to the ABC Meat Exporters Consortium. In this period, the industry processed a total of 6 million heads, with steers y cows as the main categories that promoted the work in the refrigerators.
In parallel, the slaughter of females registered a slight increase during the analyzed period, going from 47.3% to 48.3% of the total processed by the industry.
Thus, in the first five months of 2023, almost 370,000 more were sent to slaughter than in the same period of the previous year.
Although the rains reached the entire productive map of Argentina, its impact is still present on livestock.
Thus, the increase in labor It does not originate from a greater pressure from the demand, but from the anticipated departure of the farm from the fields, from the lower forage availability.
The effects of this situation, for the moment, do not show signs of reversing issues such as the largest participation of females at work and lower weight of the carcass that comes out of the refrigerators. In this context, meat production accumulated 1.36 million tons, 10.2% higher in the January-May interannual comparison. In this way, the same drought that was an enemy for the Government’s intentions to accumulate dollars can become an ally in the fight against inflation, given that the increase in slaughter and the kilos available for consumption maintains to keep prices at bay at the cost of damage to the producer.
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This increased meat production was driven by steers and steers, with a share that increased by 9.1% year-on-year. In the overall, these categories contributed 751,000 tonswhile the bulls totaled 28,800 tons.
On the side of the availability of meat from vaca, its availability grew by 17.1% compared to the first five months of 2022 and added 2,275,400 tons to the production circuit. Heifer meat production grew by 8% and generated a total of 302,500 tons.
2023-06-15 08:10:00
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