Reuters – Unreasonable animal health risk assessments continue to hamper global meat trade, according to Joao Sampaio, the director of institutional affairs at Brazilian beef processor Minerva. In statements July 26, Sampaio cited Turkey, which refuses to import Brazilian beef due to foot-and-mouth disease worries, but does buy live cattle from the country, “…which is
Brazil firm laments zoonotic trade blocks
Developing world food prices first to fall: U.S. official
Reuters – Weaker commodities prices will take longer to ease food inflation in the U.S. than in the developing world, according to a July 26 statement from Seth Meyer, chief economist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Some of the world’s poorest nations were hardest hit by a spike in corn and wheat prices after
As grain prices fall, food prices to ease first in developing world -U.S. official
Sao Paulo | Reuters – Seth Meyer, chief economist at the United States Department of Agriculture, said on Tuesday weaker commodities prices will take longer to ease food inflation in the United States than in the developing world. Some of the world’s poorest nations were hardest hit by a spike in corn and wheat prices after Russia’s
Compensation key to tackling Brazilian deforestation
Dreyfus Brazil CEO says tackling deforestation involves compensating farmers
Brazil’s chief executive of commodities trader Louis Dreyfus says that if society wants to seriously tackle deforestation, mechanisms are needed to compensate farmers for conserving trees. Murilo Parada told an audience at the World-Agritech South America Summit in Sao Paulo that the development of a carbon market would be key to protect the environment and
Brazilian farmers to expand soy area, cut fertilizer use
Consultancy has issued earliest forecast for next season
Reuters – Brazilian soybean farmers will raise soybean plantings by 1.5 per cent nationwide next season, agribusiness consultancy Agrinvest Commodities told Reuters recently, in one of the first-known projections for area growth for the new crop. Brazil planted 40.8 million hectares (100.8 million acres) with soybeans in the 2021-22 cycle, a 4.1 per cent expansion,
As sanctions bite Russia, fertilizer shortage imperils world food supply
From Mato Grosso to Manitoba, farmers are fretting over high prices, lack of supply
Reuters – Sky-high fertilizer prices have farmers worldwide scaling back its use and reducing the amount of land they’re planting, fallout from the Ukraine-Russia conflict that has some agricultural industry veterans warning of food shortages. Western sanctions on Russia, a major exporter of potash, ammonia, urea and other soil nutrients, have disrupted shipments of those
Syngenta picks Brazil’s ConnectFarm for project to recover degraded pasture land
Reuters – Brazilian ag-tech company ConnectFarm has been selected by China’s Syngenta to participate in a project aimed at recovering at least one million hectares of degraded pasture land in Brazil over five years, the company said in a statement. ConnectFarm’s role in the project, announced by Syngenta and The Nature Conservancy in 2019, will
Brazil clears GMO wheat flour from Argentina in global first
Sales, however, may be slow
Sao Paulo/Buenos Aires | Reuters –– Brazil on Thursday became the first country to allow imports of flour made with genetically modified wheat, though shipments of the new variety developed in Argentina are unlikely anytime soon due to opposition from Brazilian millers and global consumers. The decision may spur a broader global discussion about genetically
Brazil’s JBS bought 301,000 cattle from ‘irregular’ farms in Amazon, audit finds
Prosecutors 'negotiating improvements' with companies
Sao Paulo | Reuters — Nearly a third of the cattle bought by JBS SA in the Brazilian Amazon state of Para came from ranches with “irregularities” such as illegal deforestation, prosecutors found in a 2020 audit of the world’s largest meatpacker released on Thursday. In a presentation, federal prosecutors said they were “negotiating improvements”
Soy growers criticize Brazil antitrust ruling
Reuters – Brazilian soybean producers’ group Aprosoja, representing 240,000 farmers, has criticized federal antitrust agency CADE’s decision to clear a joint venture formed by rivals Bayer AG, Corteva and Syngenta. The joint venture (JV) was approved by CADE unconditionally in early August and offers a platform for the collection of royalties from genetically modified soybeans
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