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🥚 Golden (egg) rush
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🥚 Golden (egg) rush

Brazil’s top egg producers — Mantiqueira, now partially owned by JBS, and Global Eggs, soon-to-be owner of Hillandale Farms — are taking their operations to the US

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🕹️ Farms flying high
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🕹️ Farms flying high

Drone use for agriculture in Brazil is growing rapidly, and regulators are trying to catch up to the trends

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⛽ Spirits high for Brazil's ethanol
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⛽ Spirits high for Brazil's ethanol

Brazilian government gets the technical go-ahead for its plan to increase the ethanol share in gasoline, while the biofuel sector faces looming larger US tariffs

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🚛 Logistical logjam
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🚛 Logistical logjam

Brazilian agro is poised for another record-breaking grain harvest this year, but logistical bottlenecks threaten to blunt the benefits

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🇺🇸🇨🇳 Farm-idable trade war advantage
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🇺🇸🇨🇳 Farm-idable trade war advantage

Brazilian agriculture benefited from the US and China’s last tariff dispute. What are the opportunities this time around?

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☕ Fake coffee?
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☕ Fake coffee?

Brazil, the world’s largest coffee producer, is seeing a surge in demand for cheaper, unregulated alternatives as global prices soar

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🔬 Research funding down
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🔬 Research funding down

Brazil’s state-run research company Embrapa was instrumental in making the country an agricultural powerhouse. But over the past decade, it has struggled to secure funding

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💰 Mine over matter: Brazil's potash gamble
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💰 Mine over matter: Brazil's potash gamble

A Canadian mining company is pressing on with its plans to build Latin America's largest potassium mine — in the Amazon rainforest

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🌊 Between floods and droughts 🏜
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🌊 Between floods and droughts 🏜

Less than a year after enduring its worst flood on record, Brazil’s southernmost state is now grappling with a severe drought that threatens its crucial soybean harvest. These back-to-back climate disasters have left farmers reeling

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🌎 Brazil’s agro diplomacy
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🌎 Brazil’s agro diplomacy

Brazil has expanded its network of agricultural attachés and accessed hundreds of new markets in the last two years, in an attempt to diversify its exports beyond soybeans and other major products

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🌽 Storage bottleneck
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🌽 Storage bottleneck

Brazilian farmers expect a record grain harvest this year, but the country’s storage capacity gap might restrain their gains. Lack of on-farm warehouses is a long-standing problem

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🐂 From pasture to plate?
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🐂 From pasture to plate?

Brazil has announced an ambitious plan to individually trace its massive cattle herd by 2032. The move aims at bolstering sanitary controls, but could help curb deforestation in the process

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