La Estanciera at WorkPictured above is the love of my life, my darling wife Lilí looking concerned as she anticipates the results of this season's tacto. The concern was well-founded. Last year at this time, we sat through a miserable assessment from the veterinario. Due to various causes such as drought and over-population, just to mention a few, very few of our cows were with calf. Disasterously few. To make it even more disheartening, this bad news came at the end of my wife's first year of tremendously intensive efforts to bring modern, though organic, practices to a spread of grass that the dinosaurs trod and where cattle-raising technique had not changed much since the Querandí stopped killing European-types like ourselves.
Well, ladies and germs, the results are in!
I'm saying it here and now mainly because we can't tell anybody...no one would believe us.
Not that you, dear reader, would believe things from me that no reasonable person would...but a 99% pregnancy rate is virtually impossible. I wanted to shout it from the mountaintops to the whole- wide- world and the world- wide- web sounded like a decent substitute to a man whose feet feel like the consistency of good osso bucco after helping in the manga in my brand-new boots from sun-up to sun-down (menos mal, that inspired tonight's dinner...if it comes out OK, I might pass along the recipe!)
The vet was amazed, especially since he was new on the job last year for the catastrophe. "Preñada. Preñada. Preñada. Preñada." At the end of the day back at the casco, we started singing it to the tune of my favorite Argentine TV dishsoap commercial, "Despeinada! Duh da duh da duh da, despeinada!"
All due to Pachamama and the efforts of Lilí de Buenos Aires.
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thanks for all the inspiration, that´s what glory is made of.
te amo!!
To tell you the truth...it's against the law. Argentina used to allow the butcher and sale of beef right from the "ranch" but it hasn't been that way for decades.
Most of the beef you buy in the supermercado could qualify for organic, tho. Feedlots are new and rare and mostly used for finishing. The drugs injected into cattle in the US are used because they are fed corn cradle to grave and live in cramped unsanitary conditions. Grass-fed cattle don't need them. Furthermore, those chemicals are imported...nobody can afford them in Argentina.
We could/can get certification but it is a rather long process at some expense...and there's no market for organic beef. The price for certified organic beef is the same as not.
Hee hee, I was thinking that I could probably "slip" you some steaks...but in La Provincia I could probably go to jail longer than if I sold you dope!
Mike
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