Agriculture

• Wednesday, June 7th 2023 - 10:21 UTC

  Argentine citrus industry hopeful of US market for mandarins

  

  The Argentina citrus industry expects processing for mandarin and the Clementine variety to very soon begin exports to the United States. Jose Carbonell president of the Argentine Citrus Federation, Fedecitrus, was optimistic about the options of a new market.

• Wednesday, June 7th 2023 - 10:00 UTC

  Uruguay meat exports five months year-on-year down 25%

  

  Uruguay’s revenue from meat exports dropped 25% year-on-year, some US$ 350 million less, according to data released this week by the National Meat Institute (INAC). In the first five months of 2023, US$ 1.055 billion worth of bovine meat was exported, clearly below the US$ 1.408 billion obtained in the same period of 2022.

• Monday, June 5th 2023 - 13:11 UTC

  EU farmers refuse to accept plans to restore drained peat-lands, taken over by agriculture

  

  European Union farmers and conservative lawmakers are up in arms against landmark nature legislation meant to bolster the bloc's green transition and prevent vital ecosystems and species from being wiped out due to climate change.

• Saturday, June 3rd 2023 - 12:00 UTC

  Falklands farmers face tough times unable to have a fluid sale of their wool clip

  

  Lawmaker Gavin Short rose at the Falkland Islands elected Legislative Assembly this week and asked MLA Teslyn Barkman if she was “aware of any farms that have been unable to sell their wool clip either fully or partially this season.”

• Friday, June 2nd 2023 - 10:42 UTC

  US Cattle farmers strongly oppose the import of Paraguayan beef

  

  The U.S. Cattlemen’s Association has expressed strong opposition to a proposal by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (USDA APHIS) to allow the importation of fresh (chilled or frozen) beef from Mercosur member, Paraguay.

• Wednesday, May 31st 2023 - 11:27 UTC

  Magallanes Region to the rescue of farmers given the persistent drought

  

  Systems to collect and accumulate water, plus troughs, were some of the implements that were distributed among farmers in the Magallanes Region, extreme south of Chile, to combat the hydric scarcity which affects the whole region.

• Wednesday, May 31st 2023 - 10:31 UTC

  Brazilian banks will deny credit to meatpackers that buy cattle from deforested areas

  

  International measures on illegal deforestation are beginning to put pressure on Brazil, where banks have agreed to deny credit to meat packers that purchase cattle from such areas, according to the Brazilian Federation of Banks (Febraban).

• Tuesday, May 30th 2023 - 10:24 UTC

  Uruguayan Senator against synthetic meat

  

  Uruguayan Senator Sebastián Da Silva (National Party) will push for the banning of the manufacture and import of artificial or laboratory meat because “Uruguay, as a cattle-raising country, has to be a pioneer in the fight against this type of laboratory protein, artificial, and must defend the real natural food,” it was reported in Montevideo.

• Saturday, May 27th 2023 - 08:00 UTC

  UK and Brazil sign launching of the Partnership for Green and Inclusive Growth

  

  Brazil and UK signed this week a Joint Declaration launching the Partnership on Green and Inclusive Growth on the occasion of the official visit to Brazil of the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Affairs of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Mr James Cleverly.

• Thursday, May 25th 2023 - 10:06 UTC

  Brazil expects a record second crop of corn, some 102,4 million tons

  

  As the harvest of soybeans has taken longer, the pace of corn planting in Paraná, the second largest corn producer in Brazil has been the slowest in history. The higher-than-expected productivity in some areas of Brazil’s second corn crop (also known as “safrinha“) is expected to more than compensate for the planting delay and ensure record numbers in 2022/23.