Expect More Crap Reports like This:

"Best Steaks Coming Your Way: Beleaguered Argentine Beef Industry Set To Rebound"

THIS article comes from Forbes, no less.  Expect a lot of cheerleading from those who want you to believe that everything is getting better ...from real estate to stocks to bonds to... even Argentine beef.

Nine of its ten paragraphs, describe the horrors of producing beef in Argentina ...only its last paragraph describes how producers like me will make more money ...but as far as you consumers are concerned, get ready to pay even more for what should still be the Argentine national birthright.

My wife and I are going to be fine ...you, on the other hand, are going to be eating something other than beef on your Argentine asado unless you are willing to pay extraordinary prices.  Crazy stupid prices.

My wife and I are some of the very last people who produce real, honest to God, grass-fed beef.  If you are lucky, you´ll get some beef from a Cowschwitz, a confinement operation in which the animals are forced to live in their own, and other´s shit ...and are pumped full of antibiotics as a preventative measure against the entire operation going down to failure due to any sort of contagious disease.

Believe me; there is nothing to be found in Argentina other than corn-fed, antibiotic laden, mushy, fatty beef along the lines of Iowa Corn-Fed Beef found in the US.  If you are coming to Argentina to enjoy some of the legendary beef we used to produce ...forget it.  Order another bottle of our fine Malbec ...and just forget it.

Like everywhere else in the Américas, this last bastion of great natural grass-FINISHED beef has succumbed to King Corn.

Although my missus and I will not put our beautiful Aberdeen Angus through that feedlot process, we will not receive one centavo more than those that do.  Even though we sell our babies for slaughter, for your and our plates, we will not torture them.

They will, however, go into the same hopper as feedlot cattle ...so you will never be able to identify them from all the rest ...unless you insist of your butchers and your restaurants.  Tourists this year will go home disapointed and with no idea what previous arrivals were talking about when it comes to the exceptional beef this country has been famous for.

Cattle prices are high, nowadays, due to the shortage of beef on the hoof.  That helps my missus and I continue our efforts toward humane raising of animals.

But right now, in Argentina, you have a better chance of a "good" steak in Des Moines than Buenos Aires.

Don´t believe what you read in the papers.