Insights and Stories of Caroline Stauffer

Mar. 3, 2015 at 6:15 pm CST

Sao Paulo | Reuters –– Only a handful of roads remained blocked in Brazil on Tuesday as truck drivers focused their grievances on Brasilia and a key highway in top soy state Mato Grosso opened after two weeks of protests. There were seven protests over rising freight costs affecting federal […]

By Caroline Stauffer, Gustavo Bonato

Mar. 2, 2015 at 5:00 pm CST

Sao Paulo | Reuters — Striking truck drivers resumed some roadblocks in Brazil on Monday, disrupting grain and meat shipments to southern ports even as the government cracked down on protesters and promised to give new benefits to the transport sector. By mid-afternoon there were 23 road blockages in three […]

By Caroline Stauffer, Marcelo Teixeira

Oct. 3, 2014 at 4:43 pm CDT

Sao Paulo | Reuters — At least one soybean exporter in Brazil has agreed with Monsanto to collect royalties, in exchange for a fee, from farmers who planted genetically engineered seeds marketed by the company, according to industry sources. The landmark deal, already finalized by a firm that declined to […]

By Caroline Stauffer

Sep. 24, 2014 at 5:12 pm CDT

Sao Paulo | Reuters — Farmers in Brazil have started planting what may be their third consecutive record soybean crop though progress has been uneven in South America’s largest economy, analysts for two state-level farm institutes said Wednesday. Parana, Brazil’s No. 2 soy growing state, in southern Brazil has planted […]

By Caroline Stauffer

Aug. 7, 2014 at 4:05 pm CDT

Sao Paulo/Brasilia | Reuters — Russia’s ban on many western food products presents a massive opportunity for meat and grain exports from agricultural powerhouse Brazil and a smaller one for its Latin American neighbours. Around 90 new meat plants in Brazil were immediately approved to export beef, chicken and pork […]

By Caroline Stauffer, Silvio Cascione