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Describe the organization of beef farming in Argentina.

      

Describe the organization of beef farming in Argentina.

  

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Kavungya
- There are large scale ranches known as Estancias.
- Each Estancia has a manager.
- Farms are paddocked.
- The animals are reared mainly on natural pasture though there are areas which have been sown with alfalfa.
- Cowboys called gauchos drive horses around farms to look after the cattle.
- There are quarters for stockmen at strategic points of the farm.
- Farming is mechanised and aeroplanes jeep and land rover cars are used.
- There are cattle dips and wind pumps to provide water in some farms.
- Calves enter pastures with about 180kg.
- They are branded, fattened using cultivated pastures and supplementation for 16-17 months.
- They are slaughtered and taken to meet packing plants and put in cold storages and packed into tins or taken by rail to slaughter houses of main towns such as Buenos Aires and Rosario.
Kavungya answered the question on May 3, 2019 at 09:52


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