Company: CRESW
Filing Date: 2025-10-24
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0001654954-25-012195
Chunk: 173

Company: CRESUD INC
Filing Date: 2025-10-24
Form: 20-F
Item: Item 4
Chunk 173
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 by an external committee of veterinary advisors who visit each establishment monthly to evaluate, plan, and coordinate tasks.

All our establishments are officially registered as export farms, complying with current identification and traceability regulations. Each animal is individually identified, allowing us to develop special business opportunities and ensure the quality of the final product.

To improve livestock production and quality, we apply advanced breeding techniques and perform crossbreeding among indicine, British (Angus and Hereford), and continental breeds, seeking animals adapted to the conditions of each field. Pasture improvement is a permanent priority, with investments in seeds and fertilizers, increased availability of water troughs, and the incorporation of machinery for the preparation and storage of hay rolls.

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Our commitment to animal health includes compliance with national regulations, laboratory testing, and vaccination programs to prevent diseases, especially foot-and-mouth disease.

The direct costs of livestock activity are mainly concentrated in grain-based feeding and supplementation, health care, and labor, among other inputs.

Our cattle stock is organized into breeding and fattening activities. The following table shows, for the fiscal years indicated, the number of heads of cattle for each activity:

                            2025             2024             2023             2022             2021     
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Breeding stock                 56,934           62,947           70,635           66,532           58,086
Winter grazing stock           20,850           12,525            5,357            4,798            4,972
Total Stock (heads)            77,784           75,472           75,992           71,330           63,058

We seek to improve cattle production and quality in order to obtain a higher price through advanced breeding techniques. We cross breed our stock of Indicus, British (Angus and Hereford) and Continental breeds to obtain herds with characteristics better suited to the pastures in which they graze. To enhance the quality of our herds even further, we plan to continue improving our pastures through permanent investment in seeds and fertilizers, an increase in the watering troughs available in pastures, and the acquisition of round bailers to cut and roll grass for storage purposes.

Our emphasis on improving the quality of our herd also includes the use of animal health-related technologies. We comply with national animal health standards that include laboratory analyses and vaccination aimed at controlling and preventing disease in our herd, particularly foot-and-mouth disease or FMD.

Direct costs of beef production