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For all things agriculture, Brazil Agro covers the food security insights that shape global markets.

Brazil Agro

Oct 5, 2026

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🥩 Beefed-up prices

The Cepea benchmark for finished cattle hit an all-time nominal high in early October. Calves are pricier still, and that is where ranchers' trouble begins.

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Brazil Agro

Sep 28, 2026

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☕ Grounds for concern

Brazil just picked its largest coffee crop ever. But don't expect the checkout to notice.

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Brazil Agro

Sep 21, 2026

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🤨 EU U-turn?

Brasília is treating a favorable EU audit as a done deal. But a ban on Brazilian animal products should take longer to unwind.

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Brazil Agro

Sep 14, 2026

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🐔 A game of chicken

China, the world's largest poultry importer, now ships abroad the very cut Brazil depends on most.

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Brazil Agro

Sep 7, 2026

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🌾 The frontier freezes

Brazil's soybean chain is breaking volume records just as growers lose the appetite, and the means, to keep opening new fields

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Brazil Agro

Aug 31, 2026

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📋 The traceability issue

The country runs 21 separate monitoring schemes for its two biggest farm exports. They use different cut-off dates, different units of analysis and different definitions of what counts as a violation.

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Brazil Agro

Aug 24, 2026

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🛒 From the Pacific to the plate

A new model traces the path from Pacific sea temperatures to fresh produce prices, and shows which Brazilian cities feel it first.

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Brazil Agro

Aug 17, 2026

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🏇 Rodeo rally

The Barretos Rodeo Show opens on August 20 with three presidential hopefuls on the guest list and an incumbent who has never accepted the invitation.

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Brazil Agro

Aug 10, 2026

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🌾 The next Mato Grosso?

Cheap, never-farmed soil across the Paraguayan border is drawing Brazilian farmers and land funds.

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Brazil Agro

Aug 3, 2026

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🥩 Still hungry for Brazil

Feeder cattle from Mexico cannot refill American plants that Brazilian boxed beef already supplies.

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Brazil Agro

Jul 27, 2026

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6 min read

🐄 Tokenized cows

Ten tokenized dairy cows in Paraná just secured a BRL 100,000 loan registered on the stock exchange

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Brazil Agro

Jul 20, 2026

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🚂 Track record

Brazil's largest independent rail freight operator may soon change hands, in a sale that could reshape how the country's grain reaches port.

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Brazil Agro

Jul 13, 2026

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🌾 Soy can't buy me love

An unprecedented in-person survey of farmers in Brazil's grain belt finds that economic dependence on China does not buy political trust.

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Brazil Agro

Jul 6, 2026

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💸 More money, less credit

A record Harvest Plan masks a real contraction as high interest rates hollow out the subsidy behind it.

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Brazil Agro

Jun 29, 2026

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❄️ Snowball's chance

A debt-relief package cleared the Senate, but producers who stall on payments and inputs while they wait may be making the wrong wager.

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Brazil Agro

Jun 22, 2026

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☠️ Weed killer

Brazilian prosecutors want to ban the country's best-selling pesticide — not for the harm it does to consumers, but for the harm it does to workers.

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