Tag: US Department of Agriculture (USDA)

• Friday, December 30th 2022 - 09:20 UTC

  Record sales of US beef to East Asia markets in volume and value

  

  United States beef exports to East Asia in 2022 broke the record reached last year, both in volume and value, according to a report by the US’s Department of Agriculture (USDA).

• Saturday, February 19th 2022 - 08:14 UTC

  US top leader in revenue from beef exports; Brazil leads in volume

  

  United States keeps breaking records and slowly taking the global beef exports leadership, at least in terms of revenue according to the latest figures from the US Department of Agriculture, USDA. A situation which is having its impact on Brazil, a longtime top of the list in beef exports.

• Tuesday, August 3rd 2021 - 07:04 UTC

  African swine fever in the Dominican Republic; Army called in to eliminate thousands of pigs

  

  Alert in the Americas after the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Foreign Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory confirmed African swine fever (ASF) in samples collected from pigs in the Dominican Republic. ASF has forced China to cull millions of pigs since there is no vaccine to prevent the disease which is also highly contagious.

• Monday, May 27th 2019 - 05:52 UTC

  Trump announces US$ 16billion to help farmers caught in the US/China trade dispute

  

  US President Donald Trump unveiled a new US$16 billion aid package to help farmers caught in the crossfire of his trade war with China. “The farmers have been attacked by China,” Trump told reporters at the White House. “We're going to help out our farmers and we're giving them that level playing field that is so important.”

• Friday, July 20th 2018 - 07:35 UTC

  Argentina betting on a 2018/19 record wheat crop to spur the economy

  

  A record wheat harvest expected in Argentina this year could arrive just in time to jumpstart the ailing country's economy in the fourth quarter, after growth has been hit by low investment, high inflation and a soy crop devastated by drought.

• Thursday, July 6th 2017 - 10:17 UTC

  Soybeans and corn record crops challenge Brazil's storage capacity

  

  Brazilian farmers are discovering a serious obstacle to becoming one of the world’s top producers of soybeans: they’re running out of room to store all the unsold supply. The biggest harvest in the country’s history is poised to leave domestic inventories at a record, data from the processors’ group Abiove show.

• Tuesday, August 2nd 2016 - 06:19 UTC

  US and Brazil agree to open each others' beef market

  

  The United States and Brazil have agreed to allow access to each other's beef markets after more than a decade of negotiations. Brazil's Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Food Supply has agreed to imports of U.S. beef for the first time in 13 years, USDA announced today. And the U.S. will accept Brazilian beef for the first time since 1999.

• Tuesday, June 14th 2016 - 08:32 UTC

  Brazil and Argentina crop problems raise demand for US supplies

  

  Domestic supplies of corn and soybeans will be tighter than expected in the United States as problems with crops in Brazil and Argentina have raised demand for U.S. supplies from overseas buyers, the U.S. Agriculture Department. In its latest monthly supply and demand report, the government cut its new-crop and old-crop ending stocks outlooks for both corn and soybeans by more than analysts had forecast.

• Monday, February 22nd 2016 - 08:28 UTC

  Brazil heading for a record crop of 100 million tons of soybeans

  

  As the soybean harvest gets under way in Brazil, analysts are having a clearer picture of whether the forecast record-setting crop will hit the century mark of 100 million tons despite hot and dry weather in Mato Grosso and northeastern Brazil as pods set and fill.

• Saturday, January 16th 2016 - 10:00 UTC

  US Dept of Agriculture studying Brazil's success as an agricultural powerhouse

  

  Over the last 25 years, the US farmer has become increasingly aware of the impact of South American agricultural output on the global supply of grains and oilseeds. For example, in recent years Brazil has risen to the number one position as an exporter of soybeans.