Agriculture

• Monday, September 9th 2019 - 09:33 UTC

  African Swine fever has reached Philippines confirmed by UK lab

  

  Dead pigs found in some backyard farms in the Philippines tested positive for the African swine fever virus, the country's agriculture chief said on Monday, the first outbreak of the disease detected in the Southeast Asian country.

• Saturday, September 7th 2019 - 09:36 UTC

  Bolsonaro calls for an outburst of flag colors on Independence Day to remind the world “Amazon is ours”

  

  President Jair Bolsonaro has urged people to attend the September 7 Independence Day festivities dressed in green and yellow to “show the world” that “the Amazon is ours.”

• Saturday, September 7th 2019 - 09:00 UTC

  Brazil's agribusiness joins the campaign to stop rainforest fires in the Amazon

  

  The Brazilian Amazon is facing its worst spate of forest fires since 2010, with news of the destruction of the world's largest rainforest last month prompting global outcry and worries that it could hurt demand for the country's exports.

• Friday, September 6th 2019 - 09:55 UTC

  Uruguay farmers gathered in Montevideo to protest against the government: clashes with the police

  

  Horses, tractors and hundreds of rural producers from all over the country gathered in front of the Uruguay Parliament on Thursday to denounce the problems that the agricultural sector is experiencing and criticize the government for not listening to the proposals of the Un Solo Uruguay (One Uruguay) movement. The political, non-partisan movement brings together producers and actors of the rural environment and the interior of the country.

• Thursday, September 5th 2019 - 20:26 UTC

  Falklands farmers in Uruguay

  

  A FALKLANDS delegation is currently visiting farms in Uruguay. Penguin News asked the group if they would provide an insight into their experience so far.

• Thursday, September 5th 2019 - 20:23 UTC

  World cereal and sugar prices dip in August, but meat is up 12.3% in eight months

  

  Global food prices declined in August, driven by sharp falls in the prices of staple cereals and sugar, according to a report issued today by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

• Thursday, September 5th 2019 - 09:45 UTC

  Brazil soybean sales to China in August down 40% year on year

  

  Brazil shipped 4.1 million tons of soybeans to China in August, down 40% year on year, according to the Secretariat of Foreign Trade of Brazil, or Secex. Though Secex didn’t provide any reason for the sharp drop, but trade sources cited rising competition from Argentina and African swine fever among the reasons for the decline.

• Thursday, September 5th 2019 - 09:44 UTC

  Argentine farmers changing from corn to soybeans to cut costs

  

  Argentine farmers, anxious about an increasingly murky political outlook and economic turmoil, are turning toward soy over more expensive corn to cut costs, a shift that could impact next season’s harvest in one of the world’s top grain exporters.

• Thursday, September 5th 2019 - 09:19 UTC

  Soybean plantation in Brazil forecasted to grow at a much lower pace

  

  The area in Brazil to be planted with soybeans in the 2019-20 season, which starts this month, will grow by the slowest pace in 13 years as a global trade war and swine fever in China cloud the outlook for farmers, according to analysts at AgRural.

• Wednesday, September 4th 2019 - 09:10 UTC

  Bio-fuel controversy: Trump caught between farmers and the oil industry

  

  The American Petroleum Institute on Tuesday urged the Trump administration to reject proposals floated by U.S. farmers and ethanol producers to boost ethanol demand, the latest development in the clash over bio-fuel policy.