There were great events in a very motivating week: the nationals in Corrientes, the Congress of Maizar at the Golden Center, and the “Juntada” of Startup de Agtech of Innventure in the Innovation Park. In Riachuelo, the heart of the new livestock in the north of the country, the Bovinas Braford, Brangus and Brahman races and the Criollos horses And, told by our special envoy Lucas Villamil, is the cover note in this edition of Clarín Rural. In the interior pages we review everything that happened in the meeting of the corn chain, which together is the largest Argentine industry, even surpassing that of soybeans, if we consider everything that happens upstairs and current down the mythical American cereal. It is going through all the life of global society today. It is at breakfast, from coffee with milk and jam, to the Milanese of the night, passing through the gasoline that is used to go to work. So they are not just the 40 million tons that generate 7 billion dollars in exports, which alone exceeds the billing of the automotive industry, the largest of the manufactures of industrial origin (MOA), which also exports but has a commercial balance. But there is much more, and it was well exposed this week. The scream of the time, globally, is sustainability. And corn is the living paradigm of this concept, not only because of what it means in rotation, with its contribution to the regeneration of the organic matter of soils, but because it is the most shocking path to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Ethanol already replaces, in the United States, 15% of the gasoline. Despite the strong oil lobby, which always resisted its progress (they only admitted it, 30 years ago, as the oxygenant that was going to replace the MTBE (when it was suspected that it was carcinogen), which in turn had replaced the lead tetraetil. disease and quickly gave way to ethanol, starting with 2% until reaching 15% Gigantic South American photosynthetic source thoroughly, turning the sun into energy for movement, electricity generation and now also replacing plastics of petrochemical origin with those of plant origin. The hope is to advance in Parliament a new bill that puts things in its place. Startups of agrotechnology. It produces on almost a million hectares in South America, it is the largest cereal broker and developed a powerful Market Place for the entire agricultural sector.
