Tag: farmers

• Tuesday, September 21st 2021 - 09:10 UTC

  Argentine farmers stage protests and activities in front of Congress

  

  Argentina's Union of Land Workers (UTT) Monday began a 48-hour protest in front of the National Congress building demanding lawmakers pass the Access to Land bill.

• Tuesday, June 30th 2020 - 11:03 UTC

  Argentine farmers accuse Kirchnerite goons of vandalizing silo bags

  

  Argentine farmer association CRA has expressed its concern over a recent wave of vandalism on silo bags that store grain and oilseeds on-farm.

• Tuesday, October 8th 2019 - 09:54 UTC

  Clashes in Ecuador as big march approaches Quito to protest rising fuel prices

  

  Hundreds of indigenous people and farmers clashed with Ecuadoran security forces on Monday as they marched toward the capital Quito to protest against rising fuel prices.

• Wednesday, October 2nd 2019 - 08:27 UTC

  Bolsonaro signs decree expanding soft financing for farmers

  

  Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Tuesday signed a decree with a variety of measures to expand financing for farmers. The measures include the creation of a “fraternal” fund that will provide an estimated 5 billion reais (US$ 1.20 billion) in additional credit for the sector, according to Rogerio Miranda, the Economy Ministry's deputy secretary for agriculture policy.

• 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.

• Friday, August 30th 2019 - 09:39 UTC

  Fernandez meets Argentine farmers leaders and proposes a fresh start

  

  The man widely expected to become Argentina’s next president asked farmers from the country’s key grains sector on Thursday to put aside their bitter differences with the government of his running mate, former President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, and move forward with him.

• Thursday, July 25th 2019 - 05:06 UTC

  US to compensate a minimum US$ 15 per acre to farmers hurt by trade war with China

  

  The U.S. government will pay a minimum of US$ 15 per acre to farmers hurt by President Donald Trump’s trade war with China under an aid package to be unveiled before the end of the week, Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue said.

• Monday, October 8th 2018 - 08:17 UTC

  Double purpose rocket launch: Argentine satellite for farmers and recovering first stage

  

  A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying an Argentine satellite has blasted off from California. The primary purpose of Sunday's mission is to place the SAOCOM 1A satellite into orbit, but SpaceX will also try for the first time to bring the Falcon's first stage back to a landing at the Vandenberg Air Force Base launch site.

• Monday, October 1st 2018 - 08:42 UTC

  US and Canada reach a NAFTA framework pudate; “we have a trilateral deal”, sayd Mexican sources

  

  The US dollar slipped against the Canadian dollar on Monday as the United States and Canada reached a framework deal to update the North American Free Trade Agreement. The deal reached involves offering more dairy access to U.S. farmers as well as Canada agreeing to a side-letter arrangement effectively capping automobile exports to the United States.

• Wednesday, May 9th 2018 - 08:19 UTC

  Brazilian farmers optimism sky high with increasing grain prices and cheap credit

  

  Farm equipment manufacturers in Brazil are expecting g on strong sales this year, boosted by a second straight bumper soy crop and rising grain prices, which will more than offset weakness in the sugar cane sector, they said at a major trade show. Some machinery producers are forecasting sales growth as high as 8% in 2018 as farmers’ confidence rises and record-low interest rates encourage them to borrow and invest.