date:Apr 25, 2013
stry says 43 percent of the 4.6 million hectares planted with corn has been brought in to date.
Growers say they would plant more corn if the government would stop placing curbs on exports. The farm sector has long feuded with President Cristina Fernandez, who won re-election in 2011 on promises of increasing the government's role in Latin America's No. 3 economy.
Confidence has since softened. The peso has slumped in the informal market, opening a breach of 71 percent versus the formal exchan