date:Jun 13, 2013
rticularly hungry for Argentine corn after a U.S. drought in 2012 dramatically reduced world supply. The strike is also timed to demonstrate the farm sector's muscle to a government increasingly in need of export dollars.
Flow will be disturbed for three days, but it should catch up soon after, said one Argentina-based grains trader working for a major international export company.
The strike will cause line-ups at upriver ports, said the trader, who asked not to be identified.
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