Lack Of Wheat?

[Bajo_cero2]

That doesn't mean that he's wrong.

If you:

1) Can't get dollars for the grains that you sell overseas.
...&...
2) Want to fuck CFK.

Why not just say that you don't have wheat to sell?

Then you put your wheat in the grain silos that so many farms have on their premises or in these new massive plastic bags that are literally about 30 meters long (or longer), 2-3 meters wide, and about a meter & a half high?

There the product sits while the people grow angry with CFK and she loses ground in the midterm elections. Then after that, you can sell your while on the market, whether here or abroad, but CFK is in a weaker position that before.

If I owned a large campo and didn't like CFK, it might be something that I would do. Just because he sides with "K", doesn't mean that he's always wrong.

There were voices regarding to blame CFK for bad policies that produced a low harvest of wheat. It was a lie.

Farmers has a long history of boycots against democracy in this country.

 

[rrptownley]

Why not just say that you don't have wheat to sell?

Then you put your wheat in the grain silos that so many farms have on their premises or in these new massive plastic bags that are literally about 30 meters long (or longer), 2-3 meters wide, and about a meter & a half high?

Last time I had a farm tour, the owner pointed out these bags, originally developed for silage in other countries, and commented on the surge in popularity of them among Argentine farmers for storing their grains without having to send them off to co-operative silo in town where they will get immediately taxed. I'm sure a satellite analysis of the campo will show an alarming increase in black and white cubes along the fields of the Argentine.
I'm also sure this is where a large portion of the grain is sitting, "Wheat banks", "Wheaty Nest Eggs" whatever you would like to call them.

 

[dennisr]

There were voices regarding to blame CFK for bad policies that produced a low harvest of wheat. It was a lie

The fatal flaw: blameless.

 

[trennod]

As i said many times, the problem in this country are monopolies and cartels.

Yet when it comes to public works in Santa Cruz & Lazaro Báez, the government actually supports market monopolies. Funny, that.

 

[dennisr]

Someone said monopolies

http://www.ieco.clarin.com/empresas/Gobierno-arrincona-competencia-Aerolineas_0_952104797.html

 

[ghost]

i wonder if this has anything to do with it....
http://en.mercopress...ts-of-farm-belt



and if "local prices for wheat are double than international prices"

why don't they just buy some wheat at the international price and make a killing on the local market?

Rule Number One: They can't import it.
Rule Number Two: No Imports.
IBID

 

[cbonanni]

it is just another example of Argentine business , finding a way to evade or pay minimal taxes , then profiting at 3 times the price it was a few months ago. It is called screw you fellow country men , as the masses bear the brunt with 30 pesos loaves of what was already bad bread.

All the farmers have been hoarding soy , wheat , maize , etc...... in those funny white or black agri banks......

 

[Bajo_cero2]

If you want to understand the crisis in Argentina, you have to understand that the farmers are responsible on them, sometimes because they boycot, some others because they evade too much.
Farmers are the blue market. They have the dollars from the harvest and they own casas de cambio or cuevas and they sell slowly to make the price rise, exactly like they did with the wheat. And this is not a speculation. The family of my master of law is the richest family in their State. On an asado I was invited while I was his disciple, they were all talking about busisness: all of them had big farms and casas de cambio.

 

[robwerwe]

The problem here are monopolies and cartels.

Then the government should deal with them accordingly.
Hey I'm no fan of Thatcher but CFK could learn something from her.

 

[Dublin2BuenosAires]

I actually agree with our learned lawyer (a little bit) in this instance. The farmer's are playing politics with the price of bread, and making hay while the sun shines.

I cannot believe we are hearing about tomato shortages as well. I do think this is part tax evasion, part political protest and part making hay while the sun shines.

That said, the government are giving them this opportunity by implementing inefficient policies and trying (just like the airlines and petrol industries) to manage via dogma rather than pragmatically. Which never ever works. Once your ideology becomes a hindrance to real life it has failed.

The craziest part of this situation is that the one great advantage this country should have is food security!