The trip in photos

A photo view of the SDSU Ag International Study Tour of 

Argentina and Uruguay, Dec 29, 2014 - Jan 10, 2015

Photos from Argentina

One of our many farm stops and our bus that toured us though the countryside 

Group enjoying a great meal before the start of the Tango show. (Right front)..Ty Littau...thanks to Ty for joining the group as a translator, guide and friend.

Traditional Argentine saddle

All students got a chance to ride a true Argentine horse, here Mik Sich, is helped by Pedro of  La Maria on the horse and everyone enjoyed this opportunity to try out riding on a traditional saddle.

In order to see the fields and cattle we rode in pickups many times to get a closer view. 

Raul Fossati grilling up our New Year's Eve Supper on a typical outdoor grill common to homes in South America who spend a lot of time outside due to the warm weather. The Fossati family.  What great hosts to share their New Year's Eve with and learn about Argentine family culture. Our new extended family. 

And our New Year's Day hosts the Caseslla family and on the far right Alejandro, our farm tour organizer, interpreter and friend forever. We wish you all the best and can't thank you enough for all you did, Alejandro. Hope to see you soon. 

   We seen many yearling steers and heifer in backgrounding settings, prior to them entering a feedlot at 850 lbs.  Brian De Stroet, testing out the working facilities. All working chutes were wooden and required a lot of manual labor compared to our American systems. The group visited the largest feedlot in the country, a mid-sized feedyard, a purebred cattle operation (Brangus) and also a typical family farm.

 

 

 

Above: Students learned a lot about rotational grazing systems used for many of the backgrounding operations. (Right) Buyers viewing cattle at the largest livestock auction in the world, bidding occurs from catwalk. 

 

Sunflowers were also a very popular crop, both edible and non-edible and at a few farms we were told they were the most profitable crop.

Below: The group seen corn and soybeans at many stages during the trip and learned about how the farmers do a Corn 1 and Corn 2 planting to spread out risk.

Visiting the Argentina Board of Trade and watching the trade action at the close of trade.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Buenos Aires skyline from the Ferry as the students look back on their way to Uruguay. While in Buenos Aires the students visited the Board of Trade, The U.S. Embassy, the Argentina Angus Association, a historical city tour and a traditional Tango Show.

Uruguay Sites and Memories

 A PIECE OF SOUTH DAKOTA IN 

SOUTH AMERICA

 Santiago and Joaquin Narbaiz from Uruguay purchased this sprayer over the internet and shipped it by barge to South America. This sprayer came from Madison, South Dakota about 40 miles from SDSU Campus....it's a small world.

Taylor Olson and Justin Vanemann bring their in class agronomy learning to the field, converting crop yields, fertilizer rates, etc., from their SDSU classes and farms to how crops compare in Uruguay. With South America on the metric system the students converted the information back to acres almost instantly to be able to put it on the same scale as U.S. as you will see many times in the blog write ups.

Special thanks to our Uruguay hosts....in just one day we made friends and a connection for a lifetime.




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The Students of ABS 482 - 2014