Brazil Calls For Less Strict Environmental Rules
BRAZIL - The Brazilian Agriculture Minister is set to propose the adoption of environmental requirements for imports, if the environmental law in Brazil does not become less strict.

Number Of Animals Slaughtered Increases
BRAZIL - A total of 7.2 million heads of cattle were slaughtered in Brazil in the third quarter of 2009, 4.6 per cent more than in the second quarter, according to data supplied by the Brazilian Statistics Institute.

Brazil Promote Cattle Genetics Abroad
BRAZIL - Apex-Brasil, the Brazilian Export and Investment Promotion Agency, together with the Brazilian Association of Hereford and Braford (ABHB) announced that they are going to sign an agreement for the commercial promotion of the genetic material...

World Bank Withdraws Loan to Brazilian Cattle Giant
BRAZIL - The International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private lending arm of the World Bank, has withdrawn a USD 90 million loan to Brazil's cattle giant Bertin.

Friends of the Earth Denounce New Soy Standards
BRAZIL - A new initiative that will re-brand intensive GM soy and soy grown on deforested land as "responsible" will cause deforestation and sneak GM crops into the food system, Friends of the Earth announced.

Group from Yemen to Buy Milk in Brazil
BRAZIL - Representatives of Alsaeed Trading Company, who are in São Paulo, believe that by the end of the week they should close a deal with Itambé, one of the main dairies in Brazil.

Brazil to Exhibit Milk and Dairy Products in Dubai
BRAZIL - At the Brazilian stand at Gulfood, which begins next week, five companies are going to show their dairy products to the Arabs. All of them already export and want to increase sales to the region.

New Agenda for NFU IATC Brazil Trip
BRAZIL - The potential for Brazil's rapid growth in agricultural production to fill the gap between global production and consumption was one of the talking points when NFU vice president Paul Temple met the president of the Brazilian Confederation of...

Food Security on Agenda for NFU Brazil trip
BRAZIL - The potential for Brazil's rapid growth in agricultural production to fill the gap between global production and consumption was one of the talking points when NFU vice president Paul Temple met the president of the Brazilian Confederation...

Brazilian Cattle Farms Eat Away at the Amazon
BRAZIL - At the World Social Forum in Belém in the heart of the Amazon Greenpeace Brazil released evidence which they believe confirms that cattle ranching is the biggest driver of Amazon deforestation.

Mutual Interest Between Brazil and Sudan
BRAZIL - Brazil and Sudan have signed a protocol of understanding for cooperation and bilateral communication in the areas of sanitary health, animal products and other animal husbandry affairs of mutual interest.

Brazilian Cattlemen Chase Out Indians of Paraguay
BRAZIL - On the Paraguayan side of the border between Brazil and Paraguay, the last uncontacted Indians in South America outside the Amazon basin are fleeing their jungle home as it is destroyed by Brazilian cattle ranchers.

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.