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Brazil’s BRF sees holiday food sales back to pre-pandemic level

By Roberto Samora December 15, 2021

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

CBOT January 2022 soybeans (candlesticks) with 20-, 50- and 100-day moving averages (yellow, green and black lines). (Barchart)

Crops, Markets

U.S. grains: Soy, corn down on technical selling, Argentine rains

CBOT wheat up off Friday's drop

By GFM Network News, Julie Ingwersen December 13, 2021

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. soybean futures fell nearly two per cent on Monday and corn futures also declined on a mix of technical selling after last week’s advances and improving prospects for South American production, analysts said. Wheat futures rose on bargain-buying after dipping to a six-week low on Friday. Chicago Board of Trade

Markets, News

China buys U.S., Brazilian soybeans after price drop

By Reuters December 13, 2021

Chinese importers bought a small number of bulk soybean cargoes on Dec. 1 for shipment in December and January from the U.S. Gulf Coast and Brazilian ports, analysts and an export trader said. The purchases of around three to four cargoes, or up to about 240,000 tonnes, came after a sharp drop in prices as

Brazil’s farmers are poised to get assistance in order to plant a more resistant soybean seed variety that can thrive in degraded areas.

News

Syngenta picks Brazil’s ConnectFarm for project to recover degraded pasture land

By Ana Mano November 24, 2021

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

A worker inspects soybeans during the soy harvest near the town of Campos Lindos, Brazil, February 18, 2018.

Farmit Manitoba, News

Global crop production picture improves

Big U.S., Brazil harvests and slowing China demand ease some crop shortage fears

By Marcelo Teixeira, Mark Weinraub November 23, 2021

Big U.S. harvests, near-perfect weather for planting in Brazil and signs of slowing purchases by top buyer China are bolstering supplies of two of the top globally traded commodities: soy and corn. The rising stocks indicate that prices for those key crops, as well as for other staples such as sugar and coffee, may have

Crops

Brazil clears GMO wheat flour from Argentina in global first

Sales, however, may be slow

By Ana Mano, GFM Network News, Hugh Bronstein November 12, 2021

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

CME December 2021 lean hogs (candlesticks) with 20- and 100-day moving averages (pink and brown lines) and CME lean hog index (black line, left column). (Barchart)

Livestock, Markets

U.S. livestock: CME lean hogs, live cattle modestly lower

By GFM Network News, Julie Ingwersen November 12, 2021

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange lean hog futures ended lower on Thursday, retreating near the close on technical selling and soft cash hog markets, traders said. The CME’s lean hog index, a two-day weighted average of cash hog prices, fell 0.51 cent, to 78.72 cents/lb. (all figures US$). CME December lean hogs settled

A Western blot analysis, used to detect specific proteins in tissue samples, is used to confirm BSE in cattle. (Peggy Greb photo courtesy ARS/USDA)

Beef cattle, Livestock, Markets

Brazil plays down BSE risk in suspect cases in people

By GFM Network News, Nayara Figueiredo November 11, 2021

Sao Paulo/Rio de Janeiro | Reuters — Brazil’s agriculture ministry said that two cases reported on Thursday of a neurodegenerative disorder in patients in Rio de Janeiro state were not related to beef consumption, tamping down fears of possible BSE causing human illness. Federal biomedical institute Fiocruz, which is investigating the possibility of bovine spongiform

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, Weather

Brazil’s JBS bought 301,000 cattle from ‘irregular’ farms in Amazon, audit finds

Prosecutors 'negotiating improvements' with companies

By Ana Mano, GFM Network News October 7, 2021

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”

Markets, News

Saudi Arabia bans beef imports from five Brazilian meat packers

By Reuters September 24, 2021

Saudi Arabia has suspended beef imports from five Brazilian meat packers after the South American country detected two atypical cases of mad cow disease earlier this month, Valor Economico newspaper reported, citing Brazil’s Agriculture Ministry. According to Valor, the five unnamed meat packers are located in the state of Minas Gerais, where one of the

Daily Network News

U.S. livestock: Cattle rally, hogs rise

Extreme heat can overcome honeybees’ ability to regulate hive temperature Arizona study shows

U.S. grains: Soybeans, wheat, corn end lower on broad commodities slump

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