Agriculture

• Friday, April 26th 2019 - 09:37 UTC

  Brazilian ministry asks for an end to the list of endangered aquatic species

  

  Brazil's agriculture minister has asked the minister of the environment to suspend the country's list of threatened and endangered aquatic species. “It's hurting fishermen”, Jorge Seif Júnior argued and will have a significant negative impact on the fishing economy.

• Friday, April 26th 2019 - 08:29 UTC

  First shipment of Brazilian chicken to India in a year when the world faces a shortage of meat protein

  

  Brazilian meat processor JBS SA said its Seara processed foods unit will start selling chicken products to India, as the group explores new markets in a year when poultry is poised to become the most demanded meat protein in the world.

• Thursday, April 25th 2019 - 09:20 UTC

  Brazil and Argentina exports taking over US corn markets

  

  US corn exports are facing increased competition from Brazil and Argentina, the two South American nations that are offering cargoes at competitive prices on the back of high crop output, a trend that could put downward pressure on Chicago corn prices in coming months, analysts said.

• Wednesday, April 24th 2019 - 11:36 UTC

  Argentina trying to sell its soy bumper crop to China

  

  Argentina is pushing to increase agricultural trade with commodities-hungry China, as farmers on the country’s Pampas grains belt prepare for what is expected to be a bumper soybean harvest over the weeks ahead.

• Wednesday, April 24th 2019 - 09:06 UTC

  Brazilian soy farmers launch “awareness campaign” against Bayer's possible anticompetitive practices

  

  A Brazilian grain growers association has launched a hot line to encourage farmers to report practices on the part of Germany’s Bayer SA that potentially could be anti-competitive, according to statement sent to Reuters on Tuesday.

• Wednesday, April 24th 2019 - 08:50 UTC

  Wild salmon stocks in Scotland at “crisis point”, warns trade body

  

  Wild salmon catches in Scotland are at their lowest level since records began, a trade body has claimed. Fisheries Management Scotland said figures due to be published later will show stocks of the fish are at “crisis point”.

• Tuesday, April 23rd 2019 - 08:07 UTC

  African swine fever in China: Brazil expects soy exports to fall but no ceiling for meat sales

  

  Brazilian soy exports to China will definitely decline this year as African swine fever in the world’s No. 2 economy cuts demand for the animal feed, but potential growth in meat exports would offset this, Brazil’s agriculture minister said on Monday.

• Monday, April 22nd 2019 - 09:11 UTC

  What is Earth Day, and what is it meant to accomplish?

  

  On April 22, 1970, millions of people took to the streets to protest the negative impacts of 150 years of industrial development.

• Wednesday, April 17th 2019 - 09:55 UTC

  China interested in more Brazilian meat and increasing investment

  

  China is planning to allow more Brazilian meat imports following high-level talks set for May, the Chinese ambassador to Brazil said on Monday. Yang Wanming declined to comment on how many meat processing plants could be approved to export to China but said the issue would be discussed when Brazil Agriculture Minister Tereza Cristina Dias travels to China in May.

• Wednesday, April 17th 2019 - 09:20 UTC

  English farmer becomes winner of top shearing contest in New Zealand, the first since 1991

  

  A late change of plans to fly home in England in mid-March was just the ticket for Dorset farmer's son Henry Mayo on Friday as he became the first overseas shearer in 28 years to win a New Zealand Shears title in Te Kuiti.