Agriculture

• Monday, June 7th 2021 - 20:03 UTC

  Food prices in May soared to its highest in a decade, FAO report

  

  FAO – Global food prices rose in May at their fastest monthly rate in more than a decade, even as world cereal production is on course to reach a new record high, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) reported.

• Friday, June 4th 2021 - 09:10 UTC

  JBS US branch attacked by hackers paralyzing meat processing in US, Canada and Australia

  

  United States branch of Brazilian giant meat processor started to return to a plant in Texas, but with new instructions, get ready to do things a bit differently than normal: work by hand.

• Thursday, June 3rd 2021 - 08:28 UTC

  Brazil excels at agrifood production and exports, study reveals

  

  A study released Wednesday by the Brazilian Agricultural Research Company (Embrapa) of the national Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply showed the country was the world's fourth-largest grain producers in the world, it was announced.

• Thursday, June 3rd 2021 - 08:05 UTC

  Japan eases controls on Paraguayan shipments of chia thanks to flawless quality

  

  Japan's Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare have announced that controls for the presence of aflatoxins in chia imported from Paraguay were to become less strict, in light of the improvement in the quality and safety now duly recorded.

• Wednesday, June 2nd 2021 - 05:13 UTC

  Southern states of Brazil free of foot and mouth disease without vaccination

  

  Four additional Brazilian states have been recognized as free of foot-and-mouth disease without the need for vaccinations, by the World Organization for Animal Health, OIE.

• Tuesday, June 1st 2021 - 09:10 UTC

  Drug gang violence results in 9 deaths in Colombia

  

  Nine people died Monday after armed men broke into a coffee farm in the municipality of Algeciras, in southern Colombia, and “ended the lives of eight men and one woman,” the Ombudsman's Office reported. The victims were coffee pickers, it was informed.

• Monday, May 31st 2021 - 09:37 UTC

  Argentine government not fair with milk producers

  

  As tensions between the Government of President Alberto Fernández and rural producers seem to be focused on the 30-day ban on meat exports, the Argentine Rural Confederations (CRA) issued a statement this weekend headed “Does the milk producer not matter?”

• Wednesday, May 19th 2021 - 09:45 UTC

  Argentine meat processing plant closes after ban on exports: agri-food producers go on strike

  

  The Rafaela Alimentos meat processing plant in Casilda in the province of Santa Fe Tuesday closed down temporarily in response to the ban on exports decreed by the Argentine Government of President Alberto Fernández. The company employs 650 workers.

• Tuesday, May 18th 2021 - 09:44 UTC

  Argentina bans meat exports for 30 days in an attempt to curb inflation

  

  The Argentine government of President Alberto Fernández has announced all meat exports will be banned for the next 30 days in an attempt to slow down inflation as domestic prices went up 20% owing to foreign demand.

• Thursday, May 13th 2021 - 08:46 UTC

  Will Argentina squeeze exporters as soybeans rise above US $ 600 in Chicago?

  

  Argentine economists are eyeing the recent increase in the international price of soybeans as some sort of light at the end of the tunnel following a severe recession, high indebtedness amid the coronavirus pandemic.