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While farmers fear the pact with Mercosur, one sector brings out the champagne: the automobile industry

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From 35% tariffs to their non-existence through a progressive de-escalation that will advance over time. That is the new scenario that the European Union and Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay have, those countries that make up Mercosur with which the European Union has signed an agreement that will create the largest free trade area in the world. The agreement. After 26 years of negotiations, on January 9, 2026, the news broke: Mercosur (Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay) and the European Union they reached an agreement to create the largest tariff-free trade zone in the world. The pact was already almost confirmed but ended up being approved by the European Union with the approval of 21 countries (including Spain) and the votes against of France, Poland, Austria, Ireland and Hungary, as well as the abstention of Belgium. After European approval, The signing will arrive next January 17 in Paraguay. Then a project will be launched that in the next 15 years will end up eliminating the tariffs that exist between both commercial zones. A pact that will make things complicated for the primary sector but which has the European industry as the great winner. And in that industry, the automobile is one of the most benefited sectors. Why the car industry? Until now, exports from the European Union to Mercosur had tariffs of 35% on their shoulders. The pact will eliminate any type of trade barrier over 15 years. It will be gradual but after three decades, vehicle exports to South America will be completely tariff-free. That, according to data collected by The Automotive Tribuneis expected to triple the volume of exports from the European Union to this region. It remains to be seen what steps will be taken year after year but in Infobae They already anticipate that exports are expected to Brazil and Argentina with a maximum quota limit that will expand at the same rate as tariffs are reduced. Spain. One of the countries that can emerge the most strengthened from the agreement in the automobile sector is Spain. Although the figures point to a drop in production and export of automobiles this year, our country is the second European power in vehicle production (behind Germany) and more than 90% of the cars manufactured leave our borders. But, furthermore, our country is a large producer of vehicle components that will also discount tariffs on their exports. The news is especially interesting for a sector that has suffered from the tariffs imposed by the United States Government. And it is that Spain does not send cars to the American country but automobile components. Holy water for Europe. The agreement feels like holy water for European manufacturers. Currently, the cars sold in Mercosur countries are cheaper and have very poor security measures if we compare them with Europeans. Acting without tariffs will allow them to sell more cars and amortize investments than with the European emissions policies their days may be numbered. It is a good outlet for lower priced vehicles and an opportunity to compete with higher quality cars. It allows them follow that Toyota maxim to sell in each market what each market demands. But it also opens the door to compete with China, which was eating up the market by exporting cars in large volumes. They collect in Infobae that the measures that have tried to benefit the entry of hybrids and electric vehicles to Argentina and Brazil have ended up filling these markets with Chinese cars, which represent 80% of imports. USA. It must be taken into account that, in addition, dark clouds had settled on the future of the European automobile industry. Tariffs on exports to the United States they had done enormous damage despite the fact that mostly high-cost vehicles were being sold there. The problem is that the most affordable ones of European origin They are mostly manufactured in Mexico so they have also been bleeding with trade barriers. It is expected that exports to the Mercosur countries, due to purchasing power, will not generate as much money per car sold but they are expected to be much more voluminous. Eliminating tariffs will allow, as we say, to amortize investments in vehicles with lower prices and lower profit margins. They lose. The one that, predictably, will lose will be the local industry. Right now Mercosur has an industry sustained in the production of very specific vehicles for its market and with very high trade barriers that causes a very low volume of imports. Furthermore, they provide feedback to each other since 75% of car imports in Argentina They come from Brazil. Now the industry has the challenge of opening up and being more competitive. The problem for Mercosur is that, due to the cars manufactured, it seems that this sector only has one way and that is one way from Europe to South America. The return, with combustion vehicles and safety standards much less demanding than the European ones, everything indicates that it will be deserted. Photo | Jeanne Menjoulet and Mercedes In Xataka | China has a weapon to circumvent tariffs and protect the secrets of its electric cars: removable kits

Farmers expect one of the worst harvest of what is going on the century

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Pessimism is making its way in the grape sector. As the vintage season progresses in the different wine regions of our environment, the problems do not stop growing. The first was the price, with the farmers on a war for some prices that consider “ruinous”now, to this is added pessimism regarding the volume of the harvest. 34 million hectoliters. The 2025 harvest It is on its way to becoming In one of the worst views in recent years as the union of small farmers and livestock (UPA) recently stressed. Your concern is based on Estimates of the agro-food cooperative sector organization of Spain that indicate that this year’s wine production will be about 34 million hectoliters. As a contrast, The UPA points outan average season the wine production would be around 40-43 million hectoliters. From optimism to pessimism. The new estimate implies a remarkable cut with respect to the initial calculations, which trusted them to produce this year about 37.5 million hectoliters of wine and must. This fall is a reflection of an important change in the perception of what this harvest would be: of a optimism marked by the end of drought We have moved to a context in which pessimism predominates. Meteorology not so favorable. Meteorology has played an important role. The arrival of the rains seemed to bring new hopes to an agricultural sector punished by drought. However, hail storms, numerous this year, have taken its toll. He has also left his imprint in the harvest an extremely warm and drier summer than usual: the high temperatures of last month (in which we saw an intense heat wave) and the lack of rainfall have made a dent in the harvest, according to the UPA. More perhaps than meteorology, the sector also worries the climate: the UPA He also stood out The vulnerability of the sector to climate change, whose negative impact estimated at about 439,788 hectoliters, 1.4% of the harvest. The impact of the Mildiu. Another factor mentioned by the sector is that of Mildiu. This plants’ disease is a disease caused by fungi that infect plants and causes problems that end up being reflected in the productivity of the field. This Andalusia year, La Rioja, and Castilla y León have been the most affected communities according to the organization. A cGlobal RISIS. The volume of the harvest is just one of the problems that concern farmers. In its statement, the UPA also speaks of the uncertainty posed by the new US tariff policy, as well as the controversial reform of the common agricultural policy, the PAC. Although perhaps this year the great source of controversies has been economical. There have been several occasions in which farmers have protested because they consider that the prices offered by the wineries are not fair and that they focus on the crisis to their sector. To this we must add a structural problem in the sector, and that is that changes in consumption patterns have significantly punished the consumption of wine and many other alcoholic beverages. In Xataka | The Canary Islands banana is dead and does not know: Spain is an agricultural giant with mud feet Image | Mali Maeder

Spring rains have generated an unexpected problem to Spanish farmers: Cereal too cheap

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Cereal cultivation continues to live convulsive times. Like many other crops, cereals suffered the consequences of last droughta drought that came to put the sector against the sector in 2023, transforming the dream of become the barn of Europe In a bitter awakening. Prices fall. Now the lament of the sector comes from another place: prices, collapsed after the recovery of the offer, a consequence of the recovery of production. A recovery that could hardly have occurred without a hydrological year as favorable as that of 2024-25. However, it never rains to everyone’s taste. From León. Perhaps the best example we find In the Leon Lonja. There last week the price of cereals such as wheat, rye or oatmeal saw slight falls in prices. The problem is more pressing if we consider the price two years ago: € 247/t. This implies that, in the last two years the price of cereal has dropped by more than 20%. Oats, in free fall. Another striking fall It has been oatmeal: if two years ago the price of this cereal was in the € 285/t, the price has dropped from then to € 136/t, 52.3% less. A year ago the price was € 183/t, which implies that only this year the drop in the price has been around 26%. Corn, the exception. Corn is the only cereal that seems to escape this trend. Their prices remained stable in fish markets such as León, while getting up in others, Like Salamanca. Lost opportunity A fall to which the sector has responded with pessimism since in the province the harvest is already practically finished. Farmers point out that these prices barely serve costs and They talk about “Lost Opportunity” When referring to this campaign. Supply and demand. The sector indicates the origin of the problem in a simple equation, that of supply and demand. Prices have fallen significantly since 2023, when the drought put in the middle of the agricultural sector against the ropes: the absence of rains and restrictions limited agricultural production. Now, production has recovered, but the problems continue. The increase in supply has not been equated with greater demand, which has facilitated a collapse in prices. To the precarious situation other external factors must be added, such as changes in international trade patterns, among which They are included The new tariff war between the United States and Europe, a conflict still to be resolved that adds firewood to the fire in the form of uncertainty. In Xataka | Before increasingly hard droughts, we are looking for answers in something discarded 10,000 years ago: perennial cereals Image | Heyzeus I write

In Italy, farmers are so fed up with tourists who are installing lathes in the mountains. Literally

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There are many places where one would expect to find a lathe. In museums, airports, subway stations, libraries, gyms, bathrooms, stadiums … the list is long and wide. But where nobody would probably expect to see an access tourniquet is in The dolomitesthe steep mountains of the Italian Eastern Alps. After all, what does a metallic closure paint in the field? If that question is asked the farmers of Seda The answer is to remove tourists. That is why they have installed a lathe on a busy route in the area An unexpected landscape. Alps have accustomed us to postal landscapes, but not to what can be seen for weeks on one of its most popular paths, the SECEDA ODLE PANORAMIC ROUTEa mountain of the dolomitas located in Val Gardena. In addition to green slopes, steep summits and film sunset, from early July In the area there is a new element that alters the landscape: a metallic lathe, with its bars, its coin slot and A poster in which you can read “Input for the famous Ruta de las Rocas € 5”. And who put it there? A group of local farmers tired of seeing the continuous transfer of tourists in search of photos for Instagram or the best Selfie. The Telegraph Precise that the initiative started from four land owners that crosses the path. It is not just that the area receives thousands of visitors in high season (recently There was talk of 8,000 in a single day), which already exerts remarkable pressure in the environment, is that this influx, They denounce The owners of the plots, arrives accompanied by “damage” to their lands and garbage. “The authorities must understand that while the cable car operators receive large amounts of money due complaint Georg Rabanser, owner of one of the land that crosses the path. Hence the decision to install a lathe with a toll of five euros (children and locals are exempt) and a person who is responsible for controlling access and demanding the payment of the rate. A QUITA AND PUT TORN. The initiative of Italian farmers could stay there if it were not because the lathe unleashed a considerable controversy in the country. A few days after jumping the news, the device I was already canceledwith which the hikers rose again without problem (or tolls) to the Mirador de Odle. Was that the end of the story? No. Yesterday the newspaper Il post He informed that the lathe is again operation with its controversial rate. OBJECTIVE: launch a SOS. Its promoters decided to recover it to achieve what, They assureThey have always sought: to agit consciences between public administrations to seek solutions to the intense flow of tourists, “the abandoned paths and the meadows full of garbage.” “Ours has been a call for help. We expected a call from the provinces authorities. But nothing. We only read communicated in the press, rumors, nothing concrete.” “We have not even received warning letters, so we move on. The province must understand that, while the facilities (tourist) earn a lot concludes Rabanser. The debate, served. The debate of course is served. The owners of the plots through which the path passes allege that their lands suffer the avalanche of tourists, but the situation is much more complex. Italian law allows free access to environments such as Dolomitas, although in the country there are certain placeslike the popular Via dell´amorein Cinque Terre, which charge access rate. In the background there is an even broader debate and with implications that go beyond Seeda: if farmers are allowed to install lathes, the same will be allowed to the owners of other plots crossed by tourist paths? A lathe field? “I do not want the southern tyrol to become a territory of tourniquetes,” insists Carlo Alberto Zanella, from the Italian Alpine Club. “It is unthinkable that every owner of land crossed by routes begin to collect tolls for access.” Torns are not the only way to prevent tourists from damaging the environment. Moreover, the authorities have already hired more forestry to prevent visitors from leaving the trails or using drones. Images | Robert J. Heath (Flickr), Karen (Flickr) and The Zmora (Flickr) In Xataka | Everest has become a feces. Solution: That all mountaineers carry their own in bags

We thought we were facing a “historical” oil harvest. Farmers now foresee a reality bath

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Olive oil is going through convulsive times. The drought lived some crops back put many crops against the strings and fired the prices of this cornerstone of our kitchen. Last year the arrival of the rains allowed some normalization, without moving from some modest results. And now, uncertainty does not disappear. Like the last, “in the best case.” The Olivar sector has issued a statement to lower expectations Regarding the following oil harvest. They did it after a meeting of members of the union of small farmers and ranchers (UPA) in which representatives of the olive grove of all the autonomous communities were able to discuss the situation of this harvest. Farmers estimate that oil production will give us between 1.2 and 1.4 million tons of the product. According to Indicates the UPAthese figures would imply a harvest similar to the last “at best.” According to Data from the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Foodlast year there were 855,577 tons of olive oil, which would have to add 112,973 tons of olive pomace oil and 407,400 tons of table olive. According to The most recent estimates From the Ministry for this year, the expected production for this year would be at 1,415 million tons of pomace oil, plus 126,000 tons of olive pomace oil and 533.012 tons of table olive. Different communities, different impacts. In the eye of this hurricane are the Andalusian producers. “The current situation in the main autonomous producer community, Andalusia, leads us to think that the euphoria that reigned among the great market operators about a historical harvest is collapsing,” They point in a press release From the UPA. According to the estimates of the organization, the Andalusian harvest could give between 950,000 and 1,150,000 tons, while the Castilian-Manchega would be around 125,000 tons and in Extremadura the production would be about 80,000 tons. The rest of CC.AA. would contribute around 12,000 tons to this year’s harvest. Heat, pests and productive capacity. The data seem to validate the fears that A few weeks ago He highlighted the sector. As indicated then, there were several factors that invited to reduce optimism regarding the coming harvest. The first of them, the meteorology: the premature arrival of heat at the end of May implied a problem for the olive grove in full flowering. Meteorological conditions have affected different olive groves differently, but intense and advanced summer could be a determining factor in this year’s harvest. To the meteorology we must add the appearance of certain pests, such as prays (Prays Oleae), also the so -called olive moth; or that of milkweed (Euphyllura Olivina). To this must be added the olive grove, the fact that the plant tends to not be able to produce in full performance for two consecutive years. Waiting for September. It is still soon to know reliably the evolution of the harvest since There is still one of the key points that the olive groves throughout the year. The first of these stages occurs in spring and is the flowering of the olive tree, which usually occurs between April and May; The second, which we still have ahead, is the maturation of the fruit. To know how the olive grove this stage, we still have to wait until September. For now we do not know what the meteorology will hold for a month seen, although The predictions Aemet does not invite optimism. Medium-term predictions indicate a warmer and more dry August than normal, while quarterly forecasts also indicate a trimester August-October by pulling warm and dry. There will be so much to wait to see the evolution of the crop. In Xataka | More and more giants get into the Andalusian field and in the olive oil industry. The last: Pepsico Image | Royber99

Spain is the second largest almond producer in the world. There are tariffs or farmers, farmers are already in trouble

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The world has entered an impasses. Except for the particular battle between the US and Chinathe rest of the planet is entering a period of calm and uncertainty that will last approximately three months in response to the sui generis Peace flag that Trump raised a few hours ago. Today von der Leyen has announced that the EU also pause the tariffs for 90 days to give “a chance to negotiations.” The problem is that this truce is far from being a return to “normality” and dozens of sectors They are preparing For what can happen. With the enormous problems that can generate: we talk about almond How did the European response work to Trump’s challenge? But, before that, let’s do some memory. On Tuesday, April 8, the European Commission presented its plan to impose tariffs on more than 1,500 US products. Once approved by the 27 Member States, the plan consists of three phases. In the first two (between April 15 and May 16), almost all of those tariffs would come into force. But there were certain products (such as soybeans and almonds) that They would not be affected until September 1. That is why almond is a key product to understand what happens. Or, being more specific, to see the distortions than the simple possibility that tariffs end up entering into force. Because as soon as the Plan’s phases the Coordinator of Agricultural and Livestock Organizations Coordinator He came up denouncing The “the great distortion that the national almond market will experience by postponing tariffs.” Do not forget that Spain is The second world producer of almond. The first, with much difference, is the United States. In the case at hand, the delay of the tariffs “will encourage importers to advance their purchases of Californian almond, causing a sense of excess supply in the domestic market, which will serve as a crop broth for speculation and to press down the prices that our producers perceive.” It will be necessary to see how the campaign of this rainy year evolves, but the problems of almond producers have been the same as those of the olive. That means that if the price collapses, many drying farms will have a really bad time. The tariff delay is, as the COAG defined it“a perfect trap.” 90 days to prepare for the worst. And that means what happens with the almond can happen with many other products. In recent weeks we have seen, for example, the Wine Importers Alliance in the United States (USWTA) recommended “Sorted to US companies that suspend all the shipments of wine, liquors and beer from the EU. “That has happened with many other products: the ‘cancellations’ They have been constant. And this 90 -day truce is the perfect excuse to collect generating distortions in the normal functioning of raw material markets that, without a doubt, will give us some scares. Image | TIM MOSSHOLDER | Michael In Xataka | Right now there are thousands and thousands of tons of olive oil embarking on the United States

Segovia promised them happy as a tourist destination for balloon flights. Until he ran into the farmers

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The most famous are those of Capadociabut Spain is also an interesting destination for lovers of hot air balloon walks. They offer them in Andalusia, Majorca, Galicia wave Valencian Communityamong other regions, although there is a province in which they have become popular is In Segovia. There they even celebrated in September A festival that brought together about twenty of pilots The walks with a view to the aqueduct and the Alcazar have found themselves with a problem: the discomfort of the farmers. And that has generated a curious pulse. Globe walks through Segovia? Yes. Segovia is a province rich in landscapes and heritage, so … why not enjoy them in bird’s view, from the air, aboard a hot air balloon? A Fast search shows that there are different options to live the experience and from the Segovia balloons festival They claim In fact, it is “one of the best destinations in the world” for activity. “That is why about 13,000 travelers choose our city every year to enjoy this experience,” they say. Is there more data? Yes. A year ago The North of Castile investigated What supposes and how much money moves aerostatic tourism in Segovia. And their results are surprising. Apart from presenting the region as “one of the ten most demanded destinations in the world” for this type of walks, the newspaper ensures that only in 2023 1,334 flights were recorded with 14,568 travelers. At an average of 190 euros per session, that translates into about 2.6 million euros. It is estimated that there is almost a dozen of companies offering their services. Why are they news? For A few weeks Segovia’s hot air balloons are monopolizing headlines in the press regional and state And curiously it is not for its success among tourists, or their turnover, or The festival planned for this summer. No. The reason is another: The fight Among the companies and professionals of the sector and another of the key guilds for the Segovian province, the farmer. As the former gained popularity, the latter claim to have encountered a problem: low -rise flights cause them “Grave damages” In the field. Why’s that? The collective denounces that when flying near the balloons they bother the cattle and it is not strange that the pilots end up posing in their plots. “They cause stamps and stress in animals. They also land without permission in private farms, fences and occupied by cows and calves, as well as in sown lands,” He denounced A few days ago Union of Peasants of Segovia-UCCL after transferring his complaints to the subdelegation of the Government. “The balloons make low -term flights through the grass areas, operating the burner when they estimate convenient. The noise caused by this device causes serious stress to the animals, giving rise to stampeds,” The entity insists. “The scared animals jump fences, wired and break into the races with obvious risks to safety and unease for the farmer. In case they were not enough, they land unpunishedly in private farms.” Are they the only ones who complain? No. The Health Defense Group (ADS) Sierra de Segovia, which brings together just over a hundred extended cattlemen of the surroundings of the Sierra de Guadarrama and the Capital Segoviana, He complained recently to North Seville of the “legal vacuum” that entrepreneurs use to land on the plots. “They would have to be much clearer things,” Add your spokesman: “It is sinvivir, this cannot be a safari, you cannot fly over the cows to enjoy passengers.” What do businessmen say? For them the situation is quite different. In An interview with The Spanish newspaper Cristian Biosca, manager of one of the companies in the sector, acknowledged “not understanding” the controversy. “There is no novelty”, argues. The only incident that consists, says, happened “a few months ago” and Biosca clarifies that it had “nothing to do” with the companies that usually operate in Segovia. Moreover, the manager argues that the complaints that receive only three “particularly problematic” farmers. “We have tried to reach agreements with them, to come to fly and see it, but nothing.” “His complaint is that we fly low and frightened cattle, but ever none of those who fly have seen that the cattle run when we pass or break fences,” guarantees bioscawho points out that the cows have already become accustomed to the balloons. “Like the right over,” he concludes. Proof that his activity is “safe” and there is no evidence of the damages denouncing the farmers is that, he states, the complaints that have been filed to date have not prospered. What is the solution? Segovia-UCL peasants union It is clear: That the flights of the balloons stop “interfering” with the cattle breeding areas. It wouldn’t even be a new exit. The group recalls that years ago, in 2018, operators and livestock already agreed thanks to the mediation of the government’s subdelegation a “flight exclusion zone” that affected certain municipalities characterized precisely by the presence of pastures. That agreement worked for a while, but UCCL denounces that the companies that manage the balloons “are returning to Campar to their width through the grass areas.” “We understand that the tourist travel activity in globe is perfectly feasible in Segovia without invading cattle breeding spaces,” insists The collective: “It is enough to resume the pact reached in its day.” And that is feasible? UCCL Defend that yes And in fact he recognizes that for several years the agreement signed in 2018 was fulfilled “to a large extent.” “It is perfectly possible, since there is more than enough airspace so that both activities can be developed without mutual interference,” concludes. Biosca remember Also that in 2018 there were areas through which the pilots “try” not to pass, but clarifies: “The balloons cannot be directed (…) is not a matter of whim where we land, the wind takes us.” Images | Victor Iniesta (Flickr) and Segovia-UCL peasants union In Xataka | A town in León wanted to force … Read more

8,000 years ago a group of farmers crossed the Aegean Sea. Its trail can still be seen in the DNA in Media Europe

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A little before 7,000 before Christ, the western hunters-gatherers and the center of the Anatolia They started cultivating. It seems likely and unimportant. But that little change ended up causing a deep social, economic and demographic reorganization of the entire European continent. And it is not an exaggeration. It was so strong that even today we can see her on the maps. PH2TER What are we talking about? Between 6,000 and 4,000 before Christ, those Neolithic Farmers of Anatolia They began to move beyond the Aegean And, progressively, they took agriculture to Europe and North Africa. They thus became the ancestral genetic component of this whole area of ​​the world. Subsequently, the arrival of the shepherds of the western steppe (the known as Yamnaya culture) He finished configuring the basic genetics of the historical peoples of Europe, but the strength of the legacy of the anatolian farmers remained very strong. Above all, in the south of the continent. How can this know? Taking into account that the databases are even more incomplete than we would like and, therefore, there is always enough speculative content, a map can be built by comparing historical and contemporary samples. On the map, you can see a spectrum in which blue represents populations with greater “genetic distance“With the neolithic anatolic farmers and the red the slightest distance. And, to tell the truth, it has enough surprises. Detlef Gronenborn, Barbara Horejs, Börner, Obe Who is who (genetically speaking)? As usually explained, in the European countries of the Mediterranean there is a greater genetic closeness with the first European farmers. Specifically, Greece and Italy are the sites with the greatest closeness. Sardinia, of which we already knew that They were a very unique genetic populationit seems that the palm is taken. As a curiosity, it seems that current anatolia is not so great. Paleogenetics for beginners. All this is still a curiosity of an amateur forum (one that presumably has serious reliability problems as we approach detail). However, it is a good example of the enormous depth that genetic studies give us to understand the intrahistory of humanity. As we said Half decade ago“Paleogenetic techniques are like Galileo’s telescope: they let us see where we could not until now, but we need to accumulate evidence, works and studies to know what is true and what is a mirage.” As happened with carbon-14 techniques (it took almost 40 years to be reliable to one hundred percent), we are about to see how the past changes. Image | PH2TER | In Xataka | The past of the future: how science changes (constantly) our way of seeing dinosaurs and the past in general

After the controversies with the wolf, farmers and hunters begin to have a problem with another protected species: the lynx

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The return of the Iberian lynx (Lynx Pardinus) is seen by many as one of the great successes achieved by conservation policies. The species has passed in the last decades of touching the extinction to its recent recthtelogation by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN): these felines were no longer considered as a species “in danger” but as “vulnerable.” End of idyll. The reintroduction of this animal could also be seen as a success in marketingwhich turned a stretched and disdain animal on the Iberian Fauna icon. Now that image seems to be blurring. At least among farmers and hunters, as Ramón Pérez de Ayala, responsible for the WWF species program, recently explained, in statements collected by eldiario.es. Frustrated reintroductions. The misgivings from the agricultural sector are not exactly new, but in recent months their complaints seem to have won some battles. The most recent, in Catalonia, where last month the Government ended the plans to reintroduce to the cat. It was not the first battle that lost the lynx in recent months. In October, Ministry of Environment, Housing and Planning of the Territory of the Board of Castilla y León approved the reintroduction of the lynx In Palencia But he left the Zamoran Duero’s cannons outside the project, according to The local press explained at the time. In this province, the rejection by the agricultural sector had become evident months ago. What’s happening. The obstacles to this animal could be striking but respond to the complexity of integrating the feline reintroduction plans with the agricultural system in the new habitats designated for the species. The problem does not have so much to do with the lynx but with one of its prey: rabbits. The rabbit is a central part of the lynx diet. So much so that Fear of farmers and hunters is in the possibility that the plans for reintroduction of the lynx will be accompanied by protection measures for rabbits. Different sectors, different perspectives. For hunters the problem is double: first because they must compete for dams With these animals; second to the possibility that the protection measures of lynx and rabbits prevent the hunting of the latter. For farmers the problem is with the possibility that the measures trigger the population of rabbits. These herbivores, They have denounced Sometimes from the agricultural sector, they suppose a threat to crops, which unleashes the misgivings of the sector to the plans to reintroduce to its predator. The furtivism, another threat. The problems for the lynx and their lace in Spanish ecosystems do not stay there. Last year for example He denounced the illegal hunting of these cats in Murcia, and the impact of this on the probabilities of success of reintroduction efforts. In recent decades, problems with the attacks of these carnivores to farm animals have also been occasionally recorded. A study Published in 2013, he pointed out that in the previous six years 40 lynx attacks were counted that were charged with the lives of hundreds of farm animals. The problem He has persisted In the last decade. Not just the lynx. Problems with carnivorous reintroductions such as lynx, wolf or bear in Spain have become a almost constant confrontation focus between environmentalists and the agricultural and hunting sectors. The problem is not exclusive to the country even of the Peninsula. So much so that from Europe the possibility of lowering the protection of the wolf seems aimed at materializing in a matter of weeks. In Xataka | We have lost track of one of the few mammals that put eggs. Now we have rediscovered it Image | Konrads Bilderwerkstatt

an olive oil so cheap that it is no longer profitable for farmers

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Between to Huelma’s Sales, in the heart of the province of Granada, there is a cooperative that groups 1,600 olive producers from the nearby regions. It is only necessary look at its facilities To check the real state of the Andalusian olive: they work 24 hours a day and will triple the triple olive that last year. And, paradoxically, this can become a problem. Problem? How will that be a problem? It is true that consumers fall in oil price is somewhat full of advantages. However, everything has a limit. Specifically, the one that sets the fixed costs. From a certain price, farmers lose money: move to the crews, manage the olive, transport it … It entails putting more money than they can enter. How much money are we talking about? And that limit (historically, for the traditional dry land olive tree, is around four euros) is about to be reached. Faced with the nine euros to which the liter quoted at this point in last campaign, the price is already around To that red line. Is this situation normal? In the oil, we have been very bad for years; But this same season we have seen how something very similar happened with The lemons, The almonds either bananas. We have also seen that the wine faces a similar dilemma. If the production does not conform to demand, the problems appear. And it doesn’t matter whether it is on the one hand or another. And what will happen to the price? This is a great unknown, the truth. The big marketers have been accumulating losses for years and this good campaign is an opportunity to clean up their accounts. That means as they defended since Deoleo last campaignthat we are not going to see minimum prices in supermarkets. On the contrary, the actors in the sector maneuver to stop the fall of retail prices. However, market asymmetry in origin causes serious problems To the thousands of producers in Spain emptied. And it is not a futuristic. “There have been times when the liter of extra virgin has fallen to 3.5 euros, which means that in other lower categories it is in three and this is very worrying because the volume of the current harvest does not justify this decrease so pronounced “, The Director of Agrifood Cooperatives Granada explained in Ideal. What can we expect? If the fall in prices at origin does not stop, this can be the lace of the change of productive model that It has been planning for years About the Spanish olive grove. The truth is that the dry dry costs has much larger costs than The irrigation or the Superintensive. After several years with financial problems we can see how many drying farms have to close this due to blockbusters and low prices. That would be many things: a drama for many areas of the country, a substantial improvement in field productivity and huge environmental tensions. Every day that passes, the oil culture has a more uncertain future. Image | EMRE | Emiliano García Page In Xataka | The worst scenario for olive oil has come true: Spain walks towards a black year

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