Beef production in Argentina is based on grazing natural grassland and cultivated pastures, providing processed foods or concentrated only for short periods of time when nutrients provided by the pastures are insufficient to meet the requirements of the animals.

Argentina has different agro-ecological farming regions that differ in their potential for pasture production and quality of these, so there is also a regional distribution of livestock activities. The Pampas region with 57% of the national stock raising activity concentrated in areas with higher soil limitations and the activity of rearing and fattening in the soils most suitable for agriculture in rotation with agriculture.

In regions extrapampeanas the main activity is farming, and most of the calves produced are taken to the rearing and fattening areas of the Pampas. But in recent years due to the reduced availability of land because of the expansion of soybean cultivation, part of the calves produced in the regions extrapampeanas are rearing and fattened in the same region. This rearing and finishing are accomplished through pasture supplementation with cereal grains or poultry in confinement of very short duration.

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