For all things agriculture, Brazil Agro covers the food security insights that shape global markets.
Brazil Agro
Sep 29, 2025
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3 min read
🌾 Top crop
With a long history of dominance, soybean is still Brazil’s top farming output. But it has weathered rough periods.
Brazil Agro
Sep 22, 2025
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3 min read
☕ Brewing problems
A poor harvest and Trump’s 50% tariffs on Brazilian coffee have fueled market speculation and sent prices soaring in the United States and beyond.
Brazil Agro
Sep 15, 2025
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4 min read
🔁 Turning degradation into productivity
Pasture restoration is among Brazil’s big bets against deforestation, making already-degraded lands productive again.
Brazil Agro
Sep 8, 2025
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3 min read
🐷 A really pig deal
Brazil has seen record pork production and exports, driven by rising demand in Asia and at home.
Brazil Agro
Sep 1, 2025
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4 min read
🧑🏼🌾 States sow capital
Brazil’s leading farm states are turning to capital markets to bankroll crops as traditional credit falls short.
Brazil Agro
Aug 25, 2025
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4 min read
🌾 Return of the soybean wars
As China bolsters soybean imports from Brazil, US farmers claim tariff disputes are hurting their business. Plus, antitrust watchdog CADE halts the Soy Moratorium.
Brazil Agro
Aug 18, 2025
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3 min read
🍔 A beefed-up merger
Two of Brazil’s largest meat producers, BRF and Marfrig, are close to a merger that will further consolidate the country’s protein market.
Brazil Agro
Aug 11, 2025
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4 min read
🤔 Agro in a bind
The agribusiness sector has long supported far-right politics in Brazil. But now it is taking a tariff hit motivated by former President Jair Bolsonaro’s push to evade a criminal conviction.
Brazil Agro
Aug 4, 2025
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4 min read
🌍 Seeds of influence
In a bid to deepen its strategic ties, Brazil is striking new deals to export its agricultural know-how to African nations.
Brazil Agro
Jul 28, 2025
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3 min read
💰 Brazilian startups bet the farm (literally)
A wave of startups is reshaping how farmers access credit, a financial segment that public banks have long dominated with subsidized loans
Brazil Agro
Jul 21, 2025
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4 min read
🌱 Organic growth
Brazilian organic agricultural production has grown 150% since 2013, but it is still far from fulfilling the country’s potential.
Brazil Agro
Jul 14, 2025
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4 min read
🍊 Trade war hits Brazilian farms
Trump’s new tariffs could deliver a huge blow to some key segments of agriculture, the one sector in which Brazil actually has a surplus with the US.
Brazil Agro
Jul 7, 2025
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4 min read
✅ Ranchers pitch a green passport
While the federal government debates how to impose a cattle traceability system, the state of Mato Grosso — host of the World Meat Congress — opts for a private ‘Green Passport’
Brazil Agro
Jun 30, 2025
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4 min read
🌽 Credit for crops
The Harvest Plan is Brazil’s main rural credit program, helping prop up the country’s crucial agriculture sector.
Brazil Agro
Jun 23, 2025
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5 min read
☣️ Free from bird flu
Brazil is reclaiming its status as free of bird flu after containing its first confirmed case in commercial production. How did it manage to keep the disease out of its large-scale producers?
Brazil Agro
Jun 16, 2025
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4 min read
🪵 Premium timber
As producers try to expand Brazil’s niche teak wood sector, they turn to livestock farmers for partnerships to grow output without expanding land area
