More on Grain and Argentina

Here’s the Financial Times on grain prices world wide and the likelihood that Argentine farmers will throttle back on soy production. Thanks to Kelly O´Leary for the reference. And here’s…

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Soy and Politics in Argentina: An Interesting and Important Case in Various Ways

What happened A week or so ago I posted on the protests in Buenos Aires. Farmers, enraged by a new export tax on grains that meant that they would be…

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Real-Time Argentine Protest Against Farm Policy

Well, as I was writing that last scholarly post about the twists and turns in ensaimada history, one huge row broke out around our apartment, horns honking, saucepans banging. Not…

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