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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

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

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

Crops

Coffee may profit more than soy in Brazil’s new farming frontier

By GFM Network News, Roberto Samora March 27, 2018

Luis Eduardo Magalhaes, Brazil | Reuters –– Farmers tending vast, flat soy and cotton fields that spread as far as the eye can see in northeastern Brazil are finding that coffee crops might provide higher profits in the country’s agricultural frontier. More coffee farms are being developed in the western part of Bahia state, which

Beef cattle, Livestock

Brazil farm minister heads to U.S. over fresh beef ban

By GFM Network News, Roberto Samora June 23, 2017

Sao Paulo | Reuters — Brazil’s agriculture minister prepared to travel to the U.S. on Friday to fight a ban on imports of fresh Brazilian beef, which hit shares of local meatpackers and revived concerns about the image of the world’s largest beef exporter. “We will fight for this market!” said the minister, billionaire soy

Livestock

JBS scandal might reduce Brazil meat supplies, industry group says

By Ana Mano, GFM Network News, Roberto Samora May 27, 2017

Sao Paulo/Cuiaba | Reuters — An unfolding corruption scandal involving meatpacker JBS SA may reduce meat supply in Brazil, potentially benefiting rivals of the world’s largest beef exporter, industry group Abrafrigo said. Since the scandal broke, JBS and ranchers have been at odds, with the company deciding to stop buying cattle for cash and producers

Cereals, Crops, Markets

Exporters fear Brazil agents’ strike could hurt corn exports

By GFM Network News, Roberto Samora September 20, 2015

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 happen” to grain exports, though

U.S. grains: Soybeans firm as U.S. biodiesel data lifts soyoil; corn flat

Strong crops in southern Alberta, weaker ratings in north

Feds put up $58.6 M for temporary foreign worker supports

GFM Network News

U.S. grains: Soybeans firm as U.S. biodiesel data lifts soyoil; corn flat

Strong crops in southern Alberta, weaker ratings in north

Feds put up $58.6 M for temporary foreign worker supports

Author Archives Roberto Samora

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

Chinese demand pushes Brazil beef prices to record high

Lack of rain puts Brazil corn crop at risk

Brazil farmers push traders to end Amazon soy moratorium

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

Brazil judge suspends use of glyphosate herbicide

Coffee may profit more than soy in Brazil’s new farming frontier

Brazil farm minister heads to U.S. over fresh beef ban

JBS scandal might reduce Brazil meat supplies, industry group says

Exporters fear Brazil agents’ strike could hurt corn exports

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