He was 93 years old. He was the son of the founder of one of the best-known cake companies in the country. He was also a dairy producer.
This Saturday the news broke that Fernando Martínez, one of the owners of Don Satur, passed away last Wednesday at 93 years old. He was the son of Don Saturnino, the founder of Argentina’s iconic fat cake factory. He was also recognized as one of the promoters of “the cow revolution.”
Martínez was fired this Saturday by the Argentine Holando Breeders Association (ACHA), of which he was a part since the times when his family entered the agricultural activity. In addition to the renowned Don Satur products, he was a dairy producer with the La Sorianita and La Sorianita II farms.
One of Martínez’s passions was the genetics of the Holando dairy breed. He promoted advances for their upbringing. From artificial insemination to the importation of embryos from Canada and the United States.
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ACHA fired Martínez through its social networks. “We say goodbye to a great friend of the Breed, Fernando Martínez, partner of ACHA, passionate about dairy cows, a great enthusiast in cow breeding, the production and industrialization of milk. Owner of Cabaña La Sorianita, where Grand Champions of Argentine Holland came from. We accompany his family, his work team and his friends at this time,” they wrote.
The story of Don Saturnino Martínez
The Martínez family has a history of migration behind it. They arrived in Argentina in the 1950s. coming from Derroñadas, Soria, in Spain. There they were sheep producers. At first they settled in Mar del Plata.
In 1967 Don Saturnino Martínez founded a bakery in Ramos Mejía where he already produced the fat biscuits that would make him famous. As time went by, the fame of the biscuits grew in such a way that the entire family dedicated themselves to increasing production to supply an increasingly greater demand. Today it is an emblem and a classic.
Source: Ambito
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