Meat-Eating Argentines Must Lower Consumption.

BLOOMBERG.COM.
Argentines will have to lower their red-meat consumption by almost a THIRD by 2011...because of a looming cattle shortage.
Argentina led global beef exports five decades ago. Consumption may drop to 50 kilograms (154 pounds) per capita in 2011 from 70 kilograms this year, said farm leader Hugo Biocati. The shortage also means there won’t be enough to export.

El Nino Brings Rain Hope To Argentina's Soybean Crop.

BLOOMBERG.
Argentina may produce as much as 50 million tons of soybeans in its next harvest as rains created by El Nino break the worst drought in a century.

Wheat Production Booming In Brasil.

MERCOPRESS.COM.
Brasil's aggressive wheat planting policy is paying off; from 1.81 million hectares in the 2007/08 agricultural year it has jumped to 2.42 million hectares this year, and perhaps more.

Argentine Exports Forecast To Drop 20% in 2009.

MERCO PRESS.