Reuters – Brazilian pork and poultry processor BRF SA expects food sales to return to pre-pandemic levels during the holiday season as consumers and families gather again after almost two years of social distancing. In an interview with Reuters Dec. 1, Sidney Manzaro, who leads the company’s Brazilian operation, said he does not expect the
Brazil’s BRF sees holiday food sales back to pre-pandemic level
Mosaic’s Brazil unit sees fertilizer demand growing
Reuters – Mosaic Fertilizantes, a unit of Mosaic Co., sees fertilizer demand in Brazil growing by six per cent to as much as 10 per cent in 2021 if demand from corn farmers proves strong, an executive told Reuters. Mosaic Fertilizantes head Corrine Ricard noted the strong negative effects droughts and frosts have had on Brazil’s 2021 corn crop. But she
Brazil 2021 corn exports seen falling to 32 million tonnes
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
Brazil keen to increase corn exports to China — but in no rush
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
Brazil importing soy, food staples as prices soar
The surprising move is part of ongoing global food supply chain disruptions
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,
JBS vows to monitor whole cattle supply chain’s impact on Amazon
Packer plans to move against cattle 'laundering'
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
Key Brazil port resumes loading grains after COVID-19 case halted ops
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
Chinese demand pushes Brazil beef prices to record high
A significant number of local processors can now export to China
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
Lack of rain puts Brazil corn crop at risk
Soy planting delays will mean a very tight window to plant ‘second corn’
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,
Brazil farmers push traders to end Amazon soy moratorium
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
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