From $ 52 to more than $ 180 per kilo: why is the price of meat in the field triple at the counter – 27/01/2019

The chain of meat This is one of the historical standards of the Argentine economy, both because of its strategic weight in foreign exchange earnings and its political importance in the domestic basket. But few understand the complexity of animal production and the interaction of the variables that influence the Fluctuation of prices.

For this reason, it is helpful, in the height of summer, to review the report in which the Foundation for the Development of Agriculture and Livestock of Argentina (FADA) s 39; ; crumbles the formation of the price of meat.

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According to the latest Retail Price Report of the Institute for the Promotion of Beef (Ipcva), the average price of Meat at the counter today costs $ 184 per kilo. But the one a calf of 170 kilos standing around the $ 52.

According to the FADA, the price multiply by 3.3 from the veal to the sale of meat at the counter, and the final price of the meat, 69% are chain costs, 29.8% tax and 1% profit.

"Taxes represent 29.8%, the feedlot at 28.4%, veal represents 21.6% of the final price, the refrigerator at 7.1% and butchery at 13% ", the report says.

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He adds: "The labor costs are important in the butcher shop, which represents 9% the final price. The cost of transportation is on average 1% total costs (0.69 USD / kg for live animals and 1.46 USD / kg for refrigerated cargoes) ".

In this way, a cattle producer must sell 3.37 kilos of animals on foot to buy a kilogram of meat at the butcher shop.