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23 May 2007

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. ...

17 May 2007

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...

11 May 2007

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....

23 February 2007

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...

01 February 2007

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....

19 December 2006

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. ...

12 December 2006

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...

11 December 2006

08 December 2006

OPINION: Brazilian Farming Industry - A Defence
BRAZIL - Robert Forster of the National Beef Association makes a passing reference to Brazilian beef, with the usual disparaging remarks on rainforest destruction and abuse of labour....

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