Agriculture

• Monday, June 4th 2018 - 07:06 UTC

  Truckers strike is estimated to have cost Brazilian agriculture some US$ 1.77 billion

  

  The 10-day-long Brazilian striking truckers protests are winding down and companies from meatpackers to soy crushers are resuming operations. Some problems persist in some sectors and will need time to recover. Primary estimates of losses for farmers' sector could reach US$ 1.77bn

• Thursday, May 31st 2018 - 07:02 UTC

  Brazil's strike: massive losses: 70m chickens slaughtered; exports of soy, sugar and coffee cancelled

  

  Striking truckers in Brazil have disrupted supplies and exports from one of the world's agricultural powerhouses, triggering the premature slaughter of millions of chickens as feed failed to reach farmers. The strike over high fuel prices has paralyzed Brazil, the top global exporter of soybeans, sugar, coffee and chicken.

• Wednesday, May 30th 2018 - 09:37 UTC

  State of the Nation: “incredibly exciting time for the Falkland Islands and its people”

  

  On Tuesday May 29, Governor Nigel Phillips CBE addressed the elected Legislative Assembly of the Falkland Islands with a message on the State of the Nation.

• Wednesday, May 30th 2018 - 08:43 UTC

  Argentina set to expand fresh beef exports to Japan and China

  

  Argentina is set to expand fresh beef exports to Asia, with Japan and China having already approved import deals, the country's agriculture minister said. Luis Miguel Etchevehere in Tokyo said that Argentina has signed a deal with the Japanese government under which Tokyo will authorize imports of fresh beef from Argentina by late July. His country has also inked a beef export agreement with Beijing.

• Wednesday, May 30th 2018 - 08:29 UTC

  New Zealand to cull 150.000 cows to eradicate outbreak of Mycoplasma bovis

  

  New Zealand, which produces three percent of the world’s milk, announced this week its plan to cull about 150,000 cows to eradicate the disease Mycoplasma bovis. The largest mass animal slaughter in the country’s history will cost some US$ 612 million. If successful, it would be the first time an infected country has eliminated the disease-causing bacteria.

• Monday, May 28th 2018 - 08:09 UTC

  Farmers' concerns on post-Brexit labour contracting reach PM's May desk

  

  The UK food and farming industry wants assurances from the government that it will still be able to recruit enough staff from the EU after Brexit. The demand came as part of a manifesto drawn up by more than 100 organizations across the industry and sent to the PM. It urges the government to publish a white paper setting out its immigration plans “as a matter of priority”.

• Monday, May 28th 2018 - 06:46 UTC

  Brazilian government yields to demands of truckers week-long strike

  

  Brazil's President Michel Temer announced late on Sunday new measures to reduce operating costs for truckers in a bid to end a week-long protest that has severely hampered the flow of food, fuel and key exports in Latin America's largest economy.

• Friday, May 25th 2018 - 09:06 UTC

  Relief in Brazil after recovering free of FMD with vaccination OIE status

  

  The World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) declared Brazil free of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) with vaccination on Thursday, opening new export prospects for the world’s largest beef exporter. The OIE already considered most of Brazil to be free of foot-and-mouth with vaccination. The declaration, which the government had been expecting since the start of the year, extends certification to the whole country.

• Friday, May 25th 2018 - 08:56 UTC

  Brazil agriculture fears consequences of a US/China trade understanding

  

  The trade dispute between the United States and China has benefited Brazil so far but could prove harmful long term as higher grain prices will make the country’s exports less competitive, Brazil’s farm minister said. Brazil is the world's leading poultry exporter.

• Thursday, May 24th 2018 - 07:32 UTC

  China expected to import record volumes of US oil and soy, to help ease trade tensions with the US

  

  China will import record volumes of U.S. oil and is likely to ship more U.S. soy after Beijing signaled to state-run refiners and grains purchasers they should buy more to help ease tensions between the two top economies, trade sources said on Wednesday.