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Montevideo, December 2nd 2025 - 18:52 UTC

Agriculture

  • Friday, November 7th 2025 - 12:25 UTC

    Lula invites other countries to support TFFF initiative

    “We will be proud to remember that it was in the heart of the Amazon rainforest that we took this step together,” insisted Lula

    Upon launching the Tropical Forest Forever Facility (TFFF) during the Climate Summit in the Amazon city of Belém, in the State of Pará, on Thursday afternoon, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva invited other nations to support the initiative. “Forests are worth more standing than cut down. They should be included in our countries’ GDP. Ecosystem services need to be remunerated, as do the people who protect forests. International green funds are not up to the challenge,” insisted Lula.

  • Tuesday, November 4th 2025 - 09:41 UTC

    Japan is one step closer to allowing Brazilian beef imports

    A Japanese team is due in Brazil this month to check the States of Santa Catarina, Paraná, and Rio Grande do Sul, Fávaro confirmed

    The opening of the Japanese market to Brazilian beef appears imminent, as a Japanese government delegation is scheduled to visit Brazil this month to conduct a final audit of local meatpacking plants. Negotiations gained significant momentum following President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's visit to Tokyo in March.

  • Thursday, October 30th 2025 - 09:26 UTC

    Uruguay explores Mexican markets for further agricultural exports

    Fratti noted a “pleasant surprise” when the Mexican side committed to resolving all issues that can be advanced in the Free Trade Agreement between the two countries

    Uruguay’s Ministry of Livestock, Agriculture, and Fisheries (MGAP) is working to significantly strengthen trade ties with Mexico, through new market access for high-value agricultural products such as citrus fruits and cereals, while seeking to ease protocols for meat imports.

  • Monday, October 13th 2025 - 07:48 UTC

    Trump’s trade war has cemented Brazil’s place as the soybean superpower, says The Economist

    China’s embargo on American beans has created a seller’s market in South America. What would have been a glut from a bumper harvest has become a stockpile.

    They say no one wins a trade war. Certainly, there are fewer bigger losers than soybean farmers in the United States. Since May China, by far their biggest customer, has refused to buy a single bushel in retaliation for Donald Trump’s tariffs. The spat is ruining farmers in Illinois; Mr Trump is set to announce a US$10bn agricultural-relief package. It is also raising costs for crushers in China’s Shandong province, who press beans into animal feed and cooking oil. But there has been one big winner: soybean producers in Brazil. The rift between American farmers and their Chinese clients has let Brazil cement its place as the world’s soybean superpower.

  • Monday, October 13th 2025 - 07:37 UTC

    FAO Food Prices Index slightly down in September except for beef

    Abundant supplies of wheat, corn and vegetable oils are forcing prices down

    The FAO Food Price Index, which tracks monthly changes in the international prices of a set of globally-traded food commodities, averaged 128.8 points in September, versus a revised August level of 129.7 points. The September reading represents a 3.4 percent increase from a year ago.

  • Wednesday, October 8th 2025 - 09:29 UTC

    Brazil's soybean shipments to China make up for Beijing's purchases from US

    Trump's tariff war benefited Brazil and also Argentina

    After China suspended purchases of soybeans from the United States between June and August, due to President Donald Trump's tariff war, other suppliers, such as Brazil and Argentina, have found a new niche, according to a survey by the American Farm Bureau Federation, which represents 6 million American farmers.

  • Friday, October 3rd 2025 - 10:35 UTC

    Paraguay's beef exports growing stronger after 3Q

    The next step is to diversify and open new markets, Senacsa reckoned

    Paraguay's beef exports recorded a strong performance at the end of the third quarter of 2025 (January to September), the National Animal Health and Quality Service (Senacsa) reported in Asunción.

  • Thursday, October 2nd 2025 - 09:18 UTC

    La Niña forecast to hit Uruguay's agriculture

    A wildfire during 2023's drought is fought by a crop duster plane in Rocha eastern Uruguay. Photo: Sebastian Astorga Rostani

    Weather forecasters announced a high probability that the La Niña climate phenomenon will affect Uruguay during the 2025-2026 season, bringing significant challenges to the agricultural sector.

  • Thursday, October 2nd 2025 - 09:00 UTC

    Uruguay's wool sector is going through a boom

    The sheep meat market is also holding strong

    Despite a long-term decline in flock size, Uruguay's wool and sheep sector is going through a boom driven by record-high international prices. Wool prices have reached their highest level in at least three years in the South American country, mirroring a dramatic surge in the Australian market.

  • Wednesday, October 1st 2025 - 08:32 UTC

    Argentina's temporarily dropping export duties shakes CBOT

    A total of 86% of the 19.6 million tons that reached the US$7 billion ceiling by Thursday were registered by seven export companies. And that had an impact on the grain market

    The government of Argentina temporarily implemented a zero export duty quota on grain shipments (up to a US$7 billion ceiling), which was exhausted by exporters in just three days.