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Montevideo, May 21st 2025 - 17:00 UTC

Agriculture

  • Sunday, November 10th 2024 - 15:23 UTC

    France lobbying among EU partners to veto trade agreement with Mercosur

    Minister Annie Genevard admitted Paris is trying to convince “a maximum number of countries”, to set up a veto system to impede the trade agreement EU/Mercosur

    French Agriculture minister, Annie Genevard has declared to her country’s media that Paris is trying to convince “maximum number of countries”, such as Belgium, Bulgaria, Austria, Ireland and “even maybe Italy” to set up a veto system to impede the signing of a trade agreement between the European Union and Mercosur, the South American trade group.

  • Sunday, November 10th 2024 - 15:09 UTC

    Better wool quality from grazing sheep among solar panels, shows experience in Australian green farm

    According to the head of the Allendale Merino Stud, in Wellington, the effect of solar panels in his sheep has meant wool quality production has “increased significantly.”

    Sheep grazing close to a solar farm among its panels seems to even improve the quality of wool, a new study has found. The study is based on the results of a second round of wool testing at the Wellington solar farm, in New South Wales, which has shared its site with 1,700 merino sheep for the past three years.

  • Saturday, November 9th 2024 - 10:29 UTC

    Paraguay joins Lula's Global Alliance Against Hunger

    Asunción will henceforth focus on “Zero Hunger in Schools” to support family farming and micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises, among other undertakings

    The Paraguayan Government of President Santiago Peña Friday announced the South American country's “formal and voluntary” adherence to the Global Alliance Against Hunger and Poverty, an initiative fostered by Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva during his current G20 rotating leadership.

  • Thursday, November 7th 2024 - 10:13 UTC

    Argentina's beef exports hit new records

    Only 30% of Argentina's production was for domestic consumption

    Beef exports from Argentina between January and September 2024 totaled US$ 2.122 billion, thus reaching its highest performance in the last 57 years, according to a report from the Economy Ministry's Agriculture, Livestock, and Fisheries Secretariat released Wednesday in Buenos Aires. Sales abroad amounted to 699,987 tons, it was also explained.

  • Thursday, November 7th 2024 - 07:20 UTC

    AgroAlba MOU signed in Caracas

    AgroAlba will allow us to guarantee food for our peoples, Arreaza insisted

    The Governments of Venezuela and St Vincent and the Grenadines signed Wednesday the AgroAlba Memorandum of Understanding in Caracas. The multilateral initiative is an integration mechanism within The Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America - People's Trade Treaty (ALBA-TCP) seeking to foster productive investment and strengthen food sovereignty through the promotion of sustainable development, Venezuela's Foreign Minister Yván Gil explained.

  • Wednesday, November 6th 2024 - 19:37 UTC

    Slight increase in Uruguay wool exports, with a timid comeback of China, but overall outlook remains depressive

    SUL indicates that with three months left, in 2024, there seems to be a modest, very modest advancement of the market, which anyhow remains quite depressing.

    In the first ten months of this year, Uruguayan exports of ovine goods reached US$ 158.2 million which is 7% below the same period last year, according to the latest figures from the Uruguayan Wool Secretariat, SUL. This is a slight improvement from the two previous months when exports were 10% and 13%, less than the same period a year ago.

  • Wednesday, November 6th 2024 - 17:58 UTC

    Brazilian beef industry ready to fight EU deforestation law scheduled to become effective December 30

    Brazil has a traceability protocol to export to EU; the SISBOV system mandates individual identification and monitoring of cattle at least 90 days before slaughter

    As the deadline for the implementation of the European Union anti deforestation law, scheduled for next December 30, (even when it could be delayed), the powerful Brazilian cattle and meat industry is working on the presentation of a pilot traceability and monitoring project for the supply chain to present to the EU.

  • Tuesday, November 5th 2024 - 10:09 UTC

    FAO regional forum on sustainable livestock starting in Punta del Este

    FAO Director-General Qu Dongyu is to appear through a video speech

    A regional conference for the sustainable transformation of livestock hosted jointly by Uruguay's Agriculture and Livestock Ministry and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is starting Tuesday at the exclusive beach resort of Punta del Este in the department (province) of Maldonado.

  • Thursday, October 31st 2024 - 23:30 UTC

    Falklands 2024/25 Shearing circuit took off at Goose Green

    Wool Handlers await the fleeces. (Pics Tara Wilson)

    The Falkland Islands 2024/25 Shearing circuit kicked off at Goose Green on Saturday October 19. The Open Shearing saw Adam Dickson take a well-deserved win, ahead of Jon Roberts in second place. Evan Jones finished third and Igan Kennedy was fourth. In the Wool Handling class Talia Jones beat Pilar Castro to the top spot. Leila Gilding came third with Holly Turner fourth.

  • Friday, October 18th 2024 - 10:35 UTC

    Uruguayan productive lands changing hands rapidly

    Between January and August, foreign capitals mostly from the United States, Japan, Brazil, and Argentina bought 135,888 hectares

    Uruguayan productive lands were said this week in Montevideo to be changing hands at a faster pace in the first six months of 2024 as the number of hectares traded doubled year-on-year according to the Agriculture and Livestock Ministry's (MGAP) “Price of land” report.