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Montevideo, January 17th 2026 - 22:22 UTC

Agriculture

  • Wednesday, July 16th 2025 - 09:49 UTC

    Brazil eager to avert higher US tariffs

    Alckmin chaired separate mmeetings with representativers from the agricultural and industrial sectors

    Brazil is actively working to avert the implementation of 50% tariffs on its products by the United States, set to take effect on August 1 as announced by President Donald Trump. Vice President Geraldo Alckmin, along with other ministers, met with leaders from the industrial and agricultural sectors to discuss the severe potential impacts.

  • Monday, July 14th 2025 - 06:48 UTC

    Food Price Index in June, higher for meat, dairy and vegetable oils

    The Meat Price Index increased by 2.1% in June, reaching a new all-time high. World prices of bovine, pig and ovine meats all rose, while poultry meat prices are falling.

    The FAO Food Price Index, averaged 128.0 points in June 2025, up 0.5 percent from May. Although international prices of cereals and sugar fell, these declines were outweighed by higher prices for dairy products, meat and vegetable oils. The index, which tracks monthly changes in the international prices of a set of globally traded food commodities, was, in June 2025, 5.8 percent higher compared to its level a year earlier but remained well below its peak in March 2022.

  • Friday, July 11th 2025 - 19:37 UTC

    Brazil maneuvering to resume chicken exports to Europe

    Brazil reportedly stopped exporting about 123,000 tons of chicken due to the avian flu detection

    Brazil's Agriculture Minister Carlos Fávaro held a videoconference with EU Commissioner for Health and Animal Welfare, Olivér Várhelyi, this week to discuss lifting restrictions on the Brazilian chicken meat exports imposed after an outbreak of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) at a commercial farm in Montenegro, Río Grande do Sul, in May.

  • Friday, July 11th 2025 - 19:08 UTC

    French farmers parade cows in front of the Brazilian Embassy

    The demonstrators were reacting to statements from President Emmanuel Macron

    Some 100 French farmers and ranchers paraded Wednesday in front of the Brazilian Embassy in Paris with Charolais cows and T-shirts reading “Beef producers furious!” as the National Beef Federation (Federation Nationale Bovine - FNB) demonstrated its strong opposition to the proposed Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the European Union (EU) and the Southern Common Market (Mercosur).

  • Saturday, June 14th 2025 - 09:04 UTC

    FAO estimates record global cereal production in 2025/2026

    With cereal production expected to exceed utilization, world cereal stocks are predicted to expand by 1.0 percent in 2025/26 to 873.6 million tons

    FAO also released a new Cereal Supply and Demand Brief, forecasting a record global cereal production of 2 911 million tons in 2025, up 2.1 percent from 2024. World cereal utilization is forecast to increase by 0.8 percent in 2025/26, reaching 2 898 million tons.

  • Monday, June 9th 2025 - 20:18 UTC

    FAO Food Price Index dips in May amid lower cereal, sugar and vegetable oil prices

    Global maize prices declined sharply, owing to strong harvests and robust availability in Argentina and Brazil and expectations of a record crop in the United States

    The benchmark of world food commodity prices dropped in May as marked declines in international quotations for maize and palm oil outweighed historically high prices for butter and bovine meat, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) reported.

  • Saturday, June 7th 2025 - 10:21 UTC

    Will Uruguay train Palestinians in sustainable agriculture?

    “Our government is committed to humanitarian aid and to finding viable solutions that benefit the Palestinians,” Lubetkin said

    from the West Bank in sustainable agriculture, Foreign Minister Mario Lubetkin announced in Montevideo Friday.

  • Wednesday, June 4th 2025 - 10:25 UTC

    Significant growth in Paraguayan exports reported

    Brazil accounted for 99% of Paraguay's wheat shipments

    Paraguayan exports have recorded significant improvements this year, according to reports released in Asunción this week.

  • Tuesday, June 3rd 2025 - 17:40 UTC

    Electronic ID for Cattle mandatory in step forward for UK biosecurity

    Cattle with ear-tags and an implanted device in ears meant for electronic ID

    Cattle identification and traceability in England will change over the next 2 years, in a major step forward in disease control and trade across the farming sector, Defra has announced Monday 2 June.

  • Tuesday, June 3rd 2025 - 17:24 UTC

    UK international risk status for BSE downgraded to “negligible”

    The UK’s improved risk status is a reflection of the UK’s global reputation for having some of the highest standards in the world for biosecurity.

    The UK’s risk rating status for Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) has been downgraded to negligible by the World Organization for Animal Health (WOAH). DEFRA said it is a major boost for the food and farm sector, more avenues will now be open for trade with other countries as our improved risk status for beef and bovine products is recognized.