Brazil – World Agriculture’s Last Frontier
BRAZIL - Despite being locked out of more than half of the worlds beef importing counties, including South Korea and Japan, because of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD), Brazil still accounts for 32% of the worlds beef exports of more than one million tonnes...

Drop of Milk: Brazilian Spot Market Price
BRAZIL - Brazilian spot market milk price has dropped for the fourth consecutive month.

Dairy Makes Product for Lebanese Customer
BRAZIL - Over the last three months, the production manager at Lindóia do Sul dairy, José Marcos Fonseca, researched the development of a kind of pure animal fat for use in factories in Lebanon and Jordan.

Jordan Company to Milk Brazilian Market
SAO PAULO, BRAZIL – The director of Middle Furat trading company, Mohd Shqwara, is in São Paulo seeking producers of powdered milk to export to Iraq.

Pará Sales of Live Cattle to Lebanon Rise
SAO PAULO - The state of Pará, in northern Brazil, exported live cattle to the Arab world last month.

Brazil's Replacement Market Calms
BRAZIL - The market for replacement animals is much calmer. Besides the pasture worsen, the weakness of the prices’ increase helped to calm the market of replacement animals.

Perdigao Grows by More Than 80 Per Cent
BRAZIL - Perdigao closed the second quarter of 2008 with gross sales of 3.3 billion real (BRR), 81.2% more than the same period in 2007.

Milk from Brazil to the World
SAO PAULO, BRAZIL - This year, Brazil is going to have record-high exports of dairy products.

Cattle Seized in Brazil's Green Barrier
US - Brazilian authorities seized 3,100 head of cattle that were found grazing on illegally deforested land in the Amazon rainforest.

Brazil Puts a Foot in Milk Export Doorway
BRAZIL - Brazilian milk exports have always shown a small and undeveloped representation of the total milk production, averaging just five per cent. However, with the recent turmoil in major exporting countries such as Australia and New Zealand, Brazilian...

Brazilian Milk Prices On the Up
SAO PAULO, BRAZIL - The milk market has been going up in the recent months. In São Paulo, the milk price paid to the producer is about 35% higher when compared to the same period of 2007.

Mato Grosso do Sul Declared FMD Free
BRAZIL - The Brazilian Government has declared Mato Grosso do Sul a region that is free from foot and mouth disease.

Animal Health Body Declares Brazilian Region Free Of Foot-And-Mouth
BRAZIL - Officials from the World Animal Health Organization have declared the Brazilian state of Santa Catarina free of the foot-and-mouth disease, a meat industry official said on Tuesday.

In 10 Years Brazil Will Be Planet's Main Food Warehouse
BRAZIL - The adjectives are many and voiced loudly all around: Brazil is the world's warehouse; it is the world's source of food. Up to a little while ago, these words were just said, not taken seriously. Now, however, a scenery with ballast, anchored...

JBS-Friboi Confirms Bid For Swift & Co.
SAO PAULO - JBS-Friboi, the largest producer and exporter of beef in Latin America, said on Thursday it is bidding for North American meat packer Swift & Co.

Family Tradition Not Enough: Brazil Sends Its Dairy Farmers to School
BRAZIL - The region of São Luiz dos Montes Belos, in the mid-western Brazilian state of Goiás, is becoming a reference in terms of workforce specialized in agribusiness. Ever since the establishment of the Milk Production Cluster (APL), in 2003, two technical...

Brazil tightens border against Bolivia foot-and-mouth
BRAZIL - Brazil will begin tightening its border with Bolivia, where foot-and-mouth broke out last week, to try to keep the disease from throwing its world-leading beef export sector back into chaos, the agriculture ministry said on Wednesday.

Despite current woes, Brazil seen as U.S. farm rival
BRAZIL - When Paulo Sergio Franz guns a mud-splattered pickup past a spread of white Brahman cattle and wide expanses of newly planted soybeans, it becomes evident this is no ordinary family farm.

Brazil's cattle ranchers are embracing change
BRAZIL - Brazil's herd, conservatively estimated at 170 million head (the nation's beef export association figures 204 million), is the world's largest - there are about 97 million U.S. beef cattle - and there is every indication that Brazilians like...

Despite current woes, Brazil seen as U.S. farm rival
BRAZIL - When Paulo Sergio Franz guns a mud-splattered pickup past a spread of white Brahman cattle and wide expanses of newly planted soybeans, it becomes evident this is no ordinary family farm.