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Beef Cattle, Livestock, Markets, Reuters

U.S. seen approving Brazil fresh beef imports

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Sao Paulo | Reuters –– Brazil’s agriculture ministry said on Friday the U.S. is likely to approve imports of Brazilian fresh beef this year, after President Dilma Rousseff visits Washington in June. Brazil, the world’s top beef exporter, is already a steady exporter of cooked beef that appears in items such as canned corned beef […] Read more
Corn, Crops, Machinery, Markets, Soybeans

Brazil farm belt roads blocked in new trucker strike

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Sao Paulo | Reuters — Truckers in Brazil resumed roadblocks across the country’s main farm belt early on Thursday, after failing to reach common ground in talks with the government and freight companies in recent weeks regarding pay and fuel prices. Highway police on Thursday evening estimated that protesters had blocked roads at 17 points […] Read more
Crops, Markets, Reuters, Soybeans

Brazil’s Rural Society contests limits on foreign land purchases

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Reading Time: < 1 minute Sao Paulo | Reuters –– Brazil’s Rural Society, a group representing large- and medium-scale farmers, filed a case with the country’s Supreme Court on Thursday seeking to overturn restrictions on the amount of land foreigners can purchase. The attorney general’s office tightened restrictions on foreign land ownership in Brazil in 2010, an action that officials […] Read more
Crops, Markets, Reuters, Soybeans

Brazil soy exports likely to slow after fire near Santos port

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Sao Paulo | Reuters –– Brazil’s soy exports will likely slow because a six-day fire at a nearby fuel-storage facility has restricted access to Brazil’s largest port, Santos, a port official and the soy industry association Abiove said on Tuesday. Authorities have agreed to restrict truck access to some terminals at the port at least […] Read more
Beef Cattle, Livestock, Markets, Reuters

Brazilian beef exporters weigh WTO case against EU

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Brasilia | Reuters — Brazilian meat exporters are considering taking the European Union to the World Trade Organization to challenge restrictions on their beef shipments to one of the world’s top markets, the head of the country’s beef exporters association told Reuters. A new dispute could further harm trade ties frayed by an EU case […] Read more
General, Markets, Reuters

Access to Brazil’s Itajai port to open as truck protest ends

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Reading Time: < 1 minute Sao Paulo | Reuters — Protesters have agreed to open access to Brazil’s main poultry exporting port of Itajai in Santa Catarina state, the port said on Wednesday, ending a lingering flashpoint after a two-week truck drivers’ protest. A union of autonomous truck drivers agreed to the port’s proposal to raise payments for transporters inside […] Read more

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