Agriculture

• Monday, March 18th 2019 - 09:51 UTC

  Bolsonaro in Washington, meets Trump on Tuesday: closer political collaboration and Venezuela in the agenda

  

  Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro arrived in Washington on Sunday to meet with his U.S. counterpart, Donald Trump, and cement a conservative-populist alliance that, in part, aims to ramp up pressure on Venezuela.

• Monday, March 18th 2019 - 08:24 UTC

  US seizes pork shipments from China fearing contagion of African swine flu disease

  

  U.S. border agents have seized around 1 million pounds of pork from China, a spokesman for the agency said on Friday, over suspicions that it might contain African swine flu disease which has hit Chinese pork output. Federal agents have seized the supplies over the past week in New York.

• Monday, March 18th 2019 - 08:20 UTC

  Foot and mouth disease spreads to the whole of the Korean peninsula

  

  In the wake of the South Korean government’s battle to prevent the spread of foot-and-mouth disease following an outbreak in three farmhouses in the cities of Anseong and Chungju earlier this year, North Korean livestock industry insiders have reported that Pyongyang is also struggling with a nationwide spread of the disease outbreak that began in the middle of January.

• Monday, March 18th 2019 - 08:18 UTC

  US wheat and Brazilian fresh beef included in agriculture talks in Washington

  

  Brazil is considering granting an import quota of 750,000 metric tons of U.S. wheat per year without tariffs in exchange for other trade concessions, according to Brazilian officials. That is about 10% of Brazilian annual wheat imports and is part of a two-decade-old commitment to import 750,000 metric tons of wheat a year free of tariffs that Brazil made — but never kept — during the World Trade Organization's Uruguay Round of talks on agriculture.

• Friday, March 15th 2019 - 04:59 UTC

  Falklands Brexit impact still uncertain as 29 March looms

  

  The possible impact of Brexit on the Falklands is no nearer to gaining definition as UK MPs once again voted against a Brexit deal proposed by Theresa May, as well as voting against the possibility of leaving the European Union (EU) without any sort of deal.

• Thursday, March 14th 2019 - 09:48 UTC

  Argentina forecasted to increase the wheat area planted for the 2019/20 season

  

  Argentina's wheat planting area will rise again in 2019/20, industry experts anticipated, which could mean another bumper harvest after a record wheat crop last season. The area could reach up to 6.9 million hectares, analysts and farmers said, which would be the fourth consecutive increase and a rise from 6.3 million hectares in the 2018/19 season when the country produced a record 19.5 million tons of wheat.

• Thursday, March 14th 2019 - 07:59 UTC

  Brazil to discuss meat, sugar and ethanol trade with the United States

  

  Brazilian Agriculture Minister Tereza Cristina Dias said that she will discuss U.S.-Brazil trade in meat, sugar and ethanol in talks next week between officials of the two countries. Dias, who will travel with President Jair Bolsonaro to the United States, said one of her priorities is to reopen the U.S. market for Brazil’s fresh beef exports, which were suspended almost two years ago over safety concerns.

• Tuesday, March 12th 2019 - 09:29 UTC

  Leading agriculture traders target Brazilian main grain artery concession

  

  The world’s big four agriculture traders and Brazilian rival Amaggi could make a joint bid to operate a road connecting the country’s grain belt to northern ports, while also considering an investment in a parallel railway, the firm that conducted a study on the potential venture said on Monday.

• Monday, March 4th 2019 - 21:39 UTC

  Brazil's 2018/19 soy exports forecasted to decline : smaller crop and domestic prices higher

  

  Brazil’s soybean exports are expected to come in 14-18% down on the year in 2019 due to lower production and reduced buying by China, industry reports showed.

• Saturday, March 2nd 2019 - 08:35 UTC

  UK will not lower its food standards to secure a post-Brexit trade deal with US

  

  The UK will not lower food standards to secure a post-Brexit trade deal with the US, the government says. It comes after Washington published its objectives for a US-UK trade pact. The US wants “comprehensive market access” for its farmers' products that would see more US-made food on British supermarket shelves.