Insights and Stories on BRF

Global chicken meat oversupply improving, Brazil’s BRF says

May. 16, 2023 at 1:10 pm CDT

Sao Paulo | Reuters — Chicken prices are rising as companies start to cut production to reduce global oversupply, Fabio Mariano, CFO of BRF SA, said on Tuesday, after a glut helped to push the Brazilian pork and poultry producer to a first-quarter loss. The firm posted a 1.024 billion-real […]

Brazil’s BRF gets nod to export wings to Canada

Mar. 16, 2021 at 7:13 pm CDT

By Reuters

U.S. livestock: Hogs, cattle sink to multi-month lows

Jan. 29, 2020 at 7:29 pm CST

By Mark Weinraub

Canada, other countries raise meat inspection bar for Brazil

Jun. 28, 2017 at 4:12 pm CDT

By Rod Nickel Tom Polansek

U.S. bans fresh Brazil beef imports over safety concerns

Jun. 22, 2017 at 8:28 pm CDT

By Tom Polansek

‘Operation Weak Flesh’ takes bite out of Brazil’s meat exports

Mar. 24, 2017 at 8:52 pm CDT

Sao Paulo | Reuters –– Brazil’s meat exports have fallen sharply since a police investigation into alleged bribery of food-sanitation inspectors in the world’s top beef and poultry exporter sparked a wave of trade bans, an industry group said on Friday. Import restrictions by several key importers of Brazilian meat, […]

By Alberto Alerigi Thais Freitas

JBS suspends Brazil beef output amid import bans

Mar. 23, 2017 at 7:17 pm CDT

Sao Paulo | Reuters — Brazil’s JBS SA, the world’s biggest meatpacking company, announced on Thursday it had suspended beef production at 33 of its 36 Brazilian plants amid the corruption scandal that has caused some of the country’s biggest export markets to ban Brazilian meats. Agriculture Minister Blairo Maggi […]

By Brad Haynes Tatiana Bautzer

Brazil ag ministry, police say meat problems not widespread

Mar. 21, 2017 at 7:08 pm CDT

Lapa, Brazil | Reuters — Brazil’s federal police and agriculture ministry said late Tuesday that sanitary and corruption problems found in the nation’s meatpacking industry were isolated incidents, an attempt to tamp down a scandal that has led the Latin American nation’s biggest export markets to ban its meats. Since […]

By Stephen Eisenhammer

Brazil beef scandal leaves fewer options for global buyers

Mar. 20, 2017 at 9:03 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters –– Global beef buyers will likely need to cobble together supplies from several nations if a scandal persists in Brazil’s meat sector because supply constraints and politics are already limiting trade flows, market analysts said Monday. China suspended imports of all meat products from Brazil, the world’s […]

By Theopolis Waters Tom Polansek

Brazilian meatpackers slump on import curbs

Mar. 20, 2017 at 4:45 pm CDT

Sao Paulo/Beijing | Reuters — Fallout from a meatpacking industry scandal in Brazil, the world’s biggest exporter of beef and poultry, widened on Monday as China, the EU, South Korea and Chile curtailed meat imports from the country after inspectors were accused of taking bribes to allow sales of tainted […]

By Brad Brooks Dominique Patton

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