The cattle herd in 2024 may have fallen by around 1.2 million head

Although no official data have yet been released, reports circulating about Argentina’s bovine inventory at the end of 2024 suggest it stands at around 51.6 million head —about 1.2 million fewer than in 2023 and down 2.6 million over the past two years. At the end of 2023, cattle stocks had already fallen 2.4% year on year relative to the average of the previous eight years.