Global Courant 2023-04-15 13:00:58
Argentina will host the 2023 Brangus World Congress. This is an event highly anticipated by the cattle family, organized by the Argentine Brangus Association (AAB) and promoted by Expoagro.
Under the slogan “The Argentine experience”, the event will have two stages: from April 19 to 24, six establishments will be visited, located in the provinces of Corrientes, Chaco, Formosa and Santa Fe, where technical talks will be held simultaneously. Then, from 25 to 27, the 53rd Great National Exhibition and the 17th National Calf Exhibition will take place at the Rural Society of Corrientes (SRC), Riachuelo, all with the assistance of numerous foreign delegations representing 15 countries.
In this sense, it should be noted that the event has the support of the Government of the Province of Corrientes, where the second stage will take place.
So far there are more than 120 exhibitors, including companies and cabins registered for the International Exposition, from twelve provinces: Córdoba, Chaco, Santa Fe, Corrientes, Buenos Aires, Entre Ríos, Formosa, Misiones, Salta, San Luis, Santiago del Estero and Tucumán, with almost 800 registered specimens. In addition to this, breeders are expected from Australia, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, the United States, Guatemala, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, South Africa, Uruguay, and Thailand.
This great livestock event, which promises to be a party, has the impetus of Exponenciar, which brings all its experience in holding exhibitions in the field, the commercial muscle to generate the appropriate framework for business and communication.
In this regard, they indicated: “We are going to do our bit in what we know how to do, in order to provide the framework for companies that the Congress deserves, and they highlighted that the International Exposition can be followed live and direct on expoagro.com. ar, clarin.com and lanacion.com.ar”.
There are almost 800 registered copies.
From the Organizing Commission they highlighted several aspects that make the difference with respect to other world championships of the breed. First, hospitality: “All of us who make up the AAB, directors, breeders, and the staff will be present at the disposal of all those who visit us so that nothing is missing, and they feel very well cared for”, they detailed.
Secondly, the methodology: “We put together an extensive tour to visit 6 establishments with different production systems in 4 provinces. We made a lot of emphasis on showing the quantity and quality of the Argentine Brangus”.
The first field day will be at Cabaña Las Marías (Virasoro, Corrientes) dedicated to the breeding of Brangus, basically Colorado. There they will share how they work with a general rodeo of 2,200 full-cycle bellies and a herd focused on genetic improvement. The second stop will be at Cabaña Itá Sirí (Desmochado) which is characterized by rotating Voisin grazing, it is a grazing system in small plots that rotate daily and thus manage the pasture.
Then, in Cabaña La Victoria (Esquina) they will show more than 3,000 Brangus heads with the aim of seeing the consistency achieved with their commercial rodeo and seeing through the different categories, the evolution of the genetic quality achieved from their improvement program. genetic. They will also share their pine silvopastoral system, very interesting for us to produce meat and wood together.
In Formosa, more precisely in Presidente Yrigoyen, Cabaña El Bagual will report on the selection work of many years where the fundamental premise is production and adaptation to the environment. Afterwards, the tour will continue through Cabaña La Leonor (Presidencia Roca, Chaco) which will tell its experience of being located in the middle of the mountain, where they breed and sell bulls, adapted to all the rest of northern Argentina.
Finally, in Cabaña Los Guasunchos (Santa Margarita, Santa Fe) they will share 30 years of experience in the breeding and selection of Brangus Colorado, in a harsh, hostile environment, and where they have managed to develop a clearly productive activity.
6 establishments with different production systems in 4 provinces will be visited.
Another added value of the event will be the technical talks that will be given during the tour on Selection of Belly by Adaptation; High Efficiency Productive Models; Silvopastoral systems. Wood and meat on the same surface; Production and Environment. Adaptation to the Environment; Advances and Protocol to generate a reliable DEP; ERBra, new characters focused on adaptation: Tick Resistance and Hair Length; Genetic Variability in Monte Chaqueño; ERBra – Breeding Stock Evaluation. Brangus: Vanguard and Challenges.
As a fourth difference, they highlighted that “the World Cup will end with the largest Exhibition that Brangus had in Argentina and worldwide. We will have a number of animals that we doubt have been seen on another track with the genetic quality of the Argentine Brangus”.
El backstage
Around 2018, the AAB began to outline the 2020 World Cup, but as a result of the pandemic, it had to be postponed. However, work continued to maintain the event despite the health issues. “It has been two years of work that we began to project and devise everything that is going to happen in these 9 days of what we decided to call The Argentine experience”, they recalled from the organizing commission.
As indicated, there are approximately 70 people involved in the organization of the World Cup, divided into commissions and groups. For example, the Technical Commission outlined the theme of the technical talks that will take place during the tour; The Registration Commission was in charge of setting the guidelines so that all the animals that are going to attend the exhibition have their registration, DNA analysis, DEPS data; The Exhibition Commission is in charge of setting up the entire Exhibition. Its task was to enforce the regulations, set up all the logistics from admission, classification, and even sale, as are the times of each thing. “It is hard work, it has taken us a long time, but we are doing it with great enthusiasm”, they highlighted.
With great expectations, the organizers aspire to hold the best world championship in the history of the breed, and they consider that all the conditions are in place for it to happen. In this regard, they detailed: “Because of the quality of our products, said with all humility, we consider it the best pastoral Brangus in the world; for the quality and livestock passion of our breeders; for Expoagro’s experience in organizing agricultural events and for the Rural Society of Corrientes, which has progressive and modern members with a long livestock tradition”.
In figures
9 days
6 establishments to visit
15 participating countries
12 participating provinces
More than 120 exhibitors between companies and cabins
800 players
