The increase in the value of the farm on foot, between 35% and 40% in the last days, had its correlate in the counters of butcher shops and supermarkets, which increased the prices of the meat. The explanation given by the livestock sectors is that the fattening fields, or feedlots, were working at a loss and stopped replenishing the stock.
The coordinator of the Meat Table, Dardo Chiesa, confessed that the increase in the price of the meat “should have been a long time ago” since feedlots were losing $100 per kilo, although he admitted that the delay in the process occurred because “many producers had to sell the animals forcibly” due to the lack of pastures due to the drought, causing “an oversupply of cattle”.
For the head of the Chamber of Industry and Commerce of Meats (CICCRA), Miguel Schiariti, the drought caused producers to sell their cattle to feedlots, which in turn began to lose profitability and released more animals for wildlife, increasing the supply with meat in excess, in a market with depressed demand, since “purchasing power is destroyed”, he opined.
Schiariti said that the increase in the price of the property was “an explosion” and predicted that “not fully reflected on the counter yet”. The rise of the meat It is a process “that is going to take place slowly,” he explained, “because no Butcher he wants to lose his customers, even if he loses money in the first few days”.
The livestock referents agreed in advancing that “between March and April” there could be new increases in meat pricesdue to the so-called “freezer filling effect”, because it comes back from the holidays, people start buying more meat and “there is an excess demand”, and that is when “increases skyrocket”, he explained.
