Insights and Stories on Brazil

Brazil soy planting lags historical average despite rain

Oct. 30, 2015 at 4:00 pm CDT

Sao Paulo / Reuters – Soybean planting in Brazil remained behind the historical average even after isolated rainfall in the center-west, analyst firm AgRural said on Friday, with 31 per cent of area planted compared to the 42 per cent five-year average. A year earlier at this time 29 per […]

Brazil’s JBS concludes acquisition of Cargill pork unit

Oct. 30, 2015 at 3:13 pm CDT

By Reuters

Brazil’s JBS considering slew of acquisitions

Oct. 27, 2015 at 7:50 pm CDT

By Reuters

Global markets: Brazilian and South African economies

Oct. 21, 2015 at 3:38 pm CDT

By MarketsFarm Team

U.S. grains: Soy futures fall as harvest pace picks up

Sep. 22, 2015 at 4:15 pm CDT

By Mark Weinraub

Exporters fear Brazil agents’ strike could hurt corn exports

Sep. 20, 2015 at 9:45 am CDT

Sao Paulo | Reuters — A strike by Brazilian federal agricultural agents responsible for approving certificates required for shipments could affect Brazil’s corn exports, the director of the cereal exporters association Anec Sergio Mendes said Friday. Mendes said the strike that started on Thursday was “the worst thing that could […]

By roberto-samora

JBS doesn’t see Brazil beef exports to U.S. before 2016

Aug. 14, 2015 at 5:45 pm CDT

Sao Paulo | Reuters — Meatpacker JBS expects fresh beef exports from Brazil to the U.S. to begin no earlier than 2016, later than the Brazilian government predicted, CEO Wesley Batista said Friday. An agreement between the two countries was signed in June, when Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff visited Washington, […]

By Reuters

Brazil looking to open Canadian, Saudi Arabian fresh beef markets

Jul. 27, 2015 at 3:25 pm CDT

Brasilia/Reuters – Brazil is working on a deal to open the Canadian market for fresh beef in the second half of 2015 and is in the final phase of opening the Saudi Arabian market, the agriculture ministry’s secretary of international relations said on Monday. Brazil also expects a final deal […]

By Marcela Ayres

USDA takes first step to import fresh beef from Brazil, Argentina

Jun. 29, 2015 at 6:36 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is amending its regulations to allow fresh beef into the U.S. from Brazil and Argentina under specific conditions that mitigate risk of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD), the agency said Monday. “This is the first step […]

By Reuters

Brazil’s grain ports seen facing record volumes

Jun. 12, 2015 at 4:44 pm CDT

Sao Paulo | Reuters — Brazil’s grain ports will endeavour to move the last of a record soybean crop just as a huge corn harvest starts competing for terminal space, testing the country’s export capacity, an analyst at local consultancy Agroconsult said. Brazil is exporting much of a record 96 […]

By Reuters