Agriculture

• Saturday, December 19th 2020 - 09:30 UTC

  Brazilian senate approves bill facilitating purchase of rural properties by foreign companies

  

  The Brazilian Senate unexpectedly approved a bill this week to facilitate the purchase and leasing of rural properties in Brazil by foreign nationals or foreign companies. The legislation must be approved by the lower house of Congress before the president can sign it into law.

• Saturday, December 19th 2020 - 07:52 UTC

  US approves GM pigs for use as food and for medical products

  

  The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a genetically modified pig to be used as food and for medical products.

• Thursday, December 17th 2020 - 09:40 UTC

  Argentine oil seed crushing workers strike continues; 130 ships waiting to load

  

  Argentine oilseed workers are expected to continue the strike actions that are currently hitting activity at most of the country’s crushing capacity until at least next week after last-ditch salary talks with the sector’s chambers failed, Daniel Yofra, the secretary-general of crushers’ union FTCIOD has told Agricensus.

• Saturday, December 12th 2020 - 09:21 UTC

  China suspends meat imports from two Brazilian companies

  

  China has temporarily suspended meat imports from two Brazilian companies, Brazil's agriculture ministry said late on Friday.

• Friday, December 11th 2020 - 19:58 UTC

  Argentine grain inspectors and oilseed workers extend the wage strike

  

  Argentine grains inspectors and oilseeds workers extended on Friday a wage strike as stalling contract negotiations threaten to interrupt exports from one of the world's main grain producers.

• Friday, December 11th 2020 - 08:43 UTC

  Brazilian and Argentine beef exports to China suspended after Covid-19 in packaging

  

  Two beef producers from Brazil and one from Argentina have had their exports to China suspended for one week after packaging of their products tested positive for traces of COVID-19, customs said. China's General Administration of Customs (GAC) made the announcement.

• Friday, December 11th 2020 - 08:40 UTC

  Brazil lowers corn production forecast because of dry weather in the south

  

  Brazil's corn production forecast for 2020-21 has been cut to 102.6 million mt from 104.9 million mt projected in November, Brazil's national agricultural agency, Companhia Nacional de Abastecimento (Conab), said in its latest forecast.

• Friday, December 11th 2020 - 08:00 UTC

  Brazil confident of its chicken and pork production in 2021, despite grain costs

  

  Brazil's meat producers increased output for world markets this year and will again boost production next year, even though they face continued challenges because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the country's meat lobby ABPA said.

• Thursday, December 10th 2020 - 09:09 UTC

  Argentine oilseed and grains exports stalled with new wage strike

  

  Argentine grains inspectors and oilseeds workers started a new wage strike on Wednesday, organizers said in a joint statement, as stalling contract negotiations threatened to interrupt exports from one of the world's main bread baskets.

• Wednesday, December 9th 2020 - 08:20 UTC

  Brazil imported 748,000 tons of soybeans in eleven months of 2020

  

  Brazil soybean imports during November reached 122,000 tons, 20 times more than in November 2019 (6,000 tons). Purchases cost US$ 49.2 million, compared to the US$ 1.9 million spent a year earlier, as the average value of the ton purchased increased from US $328.8 to US$ 402.4, according to the Brazilian Foreign Trade Secretariat, SECEX.