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This morning we leave the house at 9.30 am. People in Argentina have different schedules than we have in the USA. They start late in the morning, have lunch at 1pm, have a siesta for 2 hours and have dinner at 9pm and go to bed by midnight.
Argentina is a very rich country with very many natural resources, unfortunately the government is very corrupt and dont let the people come to their potential. Traffic is crazy, I am sure there are rules, but nobody keeps them. There are hardly no police man, it is a very low paying job. Looks like most people live in cages. Argentine people are very nice and relaxed and love to talk. They are not wealthy, if you want to make bucks, you have to work for the government.

The dairies are very simple. Usually a milk barn, with cows running around every where in big lots. Many like to build freestalls, but the government is not willing to give dairyman credit. The government want the people to farm soya and beef for export to mostly China.

I did visit a new dairy, milking 3000 cows. Its the first one of this project and they are planning to build 6 more, milking a total of 20000 cows. This project is financed by no one else than George Soros, the investment banker. For a while I thought I was back in California, the dairies are exactly modeled after some big US dairies. There is so much land and so much feed. I think they have a great future as long as the government does not intervere.

As far as bulls the dairy man have same criteria as in US: conception, conception, conception

Just for the record: we sold 200 x Big Daddy and 200 x Shyster

I will have lots of pictures

Wout J VanderGoot