Returning to its Palermo show grounds for the first time in three years due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Rural Society’s 134th agricultural exhibition ended with the month of July after 11 days. According to the farm show’s curious tradition, it was inaugurated on its penultimate day by rural Society President, Nicolás Pino, in a ceremony also marking the 40th anniversary of the 1982 South Atlantic War – the inauguration was shunned by government officials in the midst of a Cabinet shuffle, but attended by City Mayor, Horacio Rodríguez Larreta and Corrientes Radical Governor, Gustavo Valdés, among others. Pino’s speech was harshly critical of the government’s agricultural policies, but also included an appeal to the incoming Economy minister, Sergio Massa, to take steps to “restore confidence”, while the future superminister offered positive noises as to more favorable measures following the creation of an improved exchange rate for the “soy dollar”. But Massa’s advent was also accompanied by the merger of the Agriculture Ministry and the exit of its minister, Julián Domínguez. The picket protest of July 30th and 31th against the exhibition, diverted to outside Congress, passed almost unnoticed. The display of farm machinery and champion bulls among the 2.500 animals, drew some 1.3 million people to the 400 stands representing 14 provinces.