SDSU 2016 Argentina and Uruguay Travel Class Blog : It's Summer in Argentina

Well we made it Argentina safe and sound without too much hastle. The weather was a little turbulent leaving Atlanta but cleared up as soon as we flew over Florida. Mostly everybody had fallen asleep on the plane ride from the long day within the first hour of flight to Argentina. When we arrived in Buenos Aires, we met up with our guide, Jorge. From there we took a bus to our first farm visit of the trip about two hours northwest of Buenos Aires.

A view from Alberto's farm house over a tributary that leads into the main river upstream that is very important to grain transportation in Argentina.

We arrived at the first farm visit owned by Alberto Moore. He owns a 650 hectare farm in which is mostly put into corn and soybeans. His wife, Ines prepared an Asado for us which is the same as an American BBQ. The food was delicious and their dog was happy to take the leftovers.

Slicing up the beef for the tasty Asado. It was our very first Asado and we could tell from this point on we were going to like the food in Argentina.

After the meal, Alberto explained his farming operation to our group. Alberto hires the planting, spraying, and harvesting done on his home operation much like other area producers, due to the size of this operation. We visited about new government control taking over and what it was like in the past under different presidents. We also discussed similar issues that both American and Argentine producers are facing such as herbicide resistant weeds and high input costs. When leaving his farm we stopped by a corn field that he had just planted twenty days ago to check up on its progress. I estimated the corn was a foot tall.