Articles by Roberto Samora | Manitoba Co-operator

Brazil 2021 corn exports seen falling to 32 million tonnes

By Roberto Samora May 14, 2021

Reuters – Brazil’s cereal exporter association Anec on May 5 maintained the country would ship some 32 million tonnes of corn this year, 1.6 million tonnes less than in 2020, despite a drought that is affecting yields in certain producing areas. Sergio Mendes, Anec’s director general, said Brazil’s corn export prospects remain good thanks to

Markets, News

Brazil keen to increase corn exports to China — but in no rush

By Roberto Samora January 4, 2021

Reuters – Brazil and China are in talks to boost corn trade between the two nations, though raising exports to the Asian nation at this time is unfeasible due to inter-harvest supply shortages, Abramilho, a corn producers’ association, said on Dec. 16. Only a fraction of Brazil’s corn sales went to China last year, or

Markets, News

Brazil importing soy, food staples as prices soar

The surprising move is part of ongoing global food supply chain disruptions

By Ana Mano, Karl Plume, Roberto Samora November 10, 2020

Reuters – Brazil, one of the world’s largest agricultural producers, is importing food staples including soybeans due to a rise in domestic prices, President Jair Bolsonaro said in a video posted on social media. Brazil’s turn to imports is the latest disruption to the global food supply chain as soybean prices hover around four-year highs,

A tract of Amazon jungle burns as it is cleared by farmers at Rio Pardo in Brazil’s Rondonia state on Sept. 15, 2019. (File photo: Reuters/Ricardo Moraes)

Beef cattle, Livestock

JBS vows to monitor whole cattle supply chain’s impact on Amazon

Packer plans to move against cattle 'laundering'

By GFM Network News, Roberto Samora September 23, 2020

Sao Paulo | Reuters — JBS SA, the world’s top meatpacker, said Wednesday it plans to combat destruction in the Amazon by monitoring its entire supply chain for deforestation by 2025, as pressure mounts from environmentalists and investors. Brazilian meatpackers are facing increasing criticism that beef production is fueling deforestation in the Amazon, where cleared

News

Key Brazil port resumes loading grains after COVID-19 case halted ops

By Roberto Samora June 5, 2020

Reuters – Loading of grains and other products at the port of Paranagua, Brazil’s second largest, resumed normally on May 27, after a case of COVID-19 paralyzed work in berth 214 for about 24 hours, according to the port authority. Soybean loading at that berth was halted after a crew member of a vessel tested

Total Brazilian beef exports in January to October 2019 were 1.5 million tonnes.

Livestock, Livestock Markets

Chinese demand pushes Brazil beef prices to record high

A significant number of local processors can now export to China

By Roberto Samora December 10, 2019

Reuters – Brazil’s famous barbecue is getting more expensive as Chinese demand is increasingly swallowing up the country’s beef supply, pushing Brazilian cattle prices to a record high. China’s hunger for foreign meat has shot up as an outbreak of African swine fever has decimated its domestic pig population and has sent it looking for substitutes. Chinese imports of

A man works next to a truck unloading second corn (winter corn) near Sorriso  in the Mato Grosso state, Brazil.

News, Oilseeds

Lack of rain puts Brazil corn crop at risk

Soy planting delays will mean a very tight window to plant ‘second corn’

By Roberto Samora November 12, 2019

Reuters – Delays in Brazil’s soybean planting due to scarce rainfall may affect sowing of the country’s second corn crop, which is planted after the oilseed is harvested and represents about 73 per cent of the South American output. “There is a lot of risk for the (corn) crop,” Antonio Galvan, head of the Mato Grosso state grain growers’ association,

Crops

Brazil farmers push traders to end Amazon soy moratorium

By GFM Network News, Roberto Samora November 6, 2019

Sao Paulo | Reuters – Brazilian farmers plan to start a campaign next week to end a ban by trading firms on buying soybeans from parts of the Amazon rainforest cleared after 2008, leaders from a major farmer group told Reuters, citing support from President Jair Bolsonaro. The push to end traders’ voluntary “soy moratorium” — one

File photo of wheat being loaded onto a bulk vessel at port in Russia. (YGrek/iStock/Getty Images)

Crops, Markets

Brazil expected to introduce tariff-free wheat import quota from 2020

By GFM Network News, Roberto Samora September 3, 2019

Sao Paulo | Reuters — Brazil is expected to introduce a tariff-free wheat import quota of 750,000 tonnes per year starting from 2020, the president of the country’s wheat industry group Abitrigo, Rubens Barbosa, said on Tuesday. Brazil announced the opening of the tariff-free wheat import quota earlier this year in connection with President Jair

A soybean plantation in Brazil. (MailsonPignata/iStock/Getty Images)

Crops

Brazil judge suspends use of glyphosate herbicide

By GFM Network News, Roberto Samora August 7, 2018

Sao Paulo | Reuters – A Brazilian judge has suspended the use of products containing the agrochemical glyphosate, a herbicide widely employed for soybeans and other crops in the country. A federal judge in Brasilia ruled on Friday that new products containing the chemical could not be registered in the country and existing registrations would

Klassen: Feeder market heating up

AGI to buy into soil microbe breeding firm

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures climb as corn prices cool

GFM Network News