The market scenario for the cattle industry in 2023 does not yet see a favorable horizon.The evaluation is the president of the Relationship Commission with the Instituto Desenvolve Livestock, Ivan Faria. Among the factors are another drought in the State that should bring down production to unbearable levels within the current price situation, in the face of poor domestic demand and a waning export and equally unattractive prices. According to the leader, the prospects for quality meat produced in Rio Grande do Sul are discouraging.

Factors that Contributed to This Situation

Faria reinforces that the gaucho meat is comparable to the best in the world in flavor and softness, but insists on competing the shelf with the cows of Roraima. “Who is to blame?Of the producers, the meat industry, retail, regulatory institutions or governments?Of all of us!Of our inability to jointly manage the productive chain that is present in the economy of all municipalities gauchos and brazilians, yes all, because there is no corner of this land that does not have a cow”, he notes.

Prospects for the Future

For the representative of Develop Livestock, what can be expected from the future in the short, medium and long term are the cheapest terneiros of the last three years, the sale of matrices to compensate for the cash outflow, the lack of appetite to take money in bank at steep interest and invest in a business with negative margins and the rural exodus with the overwhelming occupation of the best fields by agriculture.