Despite concern about US tariffs, Brazilian fruit exports had another record-breaking year in 2025. Now the sector sets its sights across the Atlantic.
As the global cocoa market struggles with high prices and lower output, Brazil wants to recover some of its past glory as a top producer. But 2025 was not a good year.
Some farmers in Brazil are replacing corn with sorghum, as the grain is better suited to drier climates
After a year of intense pressure from agribusiness and several court disputes, a key Amazon conservation mechanism loses its largest trader member.
Brazil has developed a steady ethanol market and solid biofuel credentials globally. Now it hopes it can do the same for Sustainable Aviation Fuel.
Brazil's peanut output has seen strong growth in past years through exports. Now, farmers want to find the same success with the domestic market.
The Brazilian government has accessed over 500 new agricultural markets in the past three years, in an attempt to diversify its export mix beyond soybeans and China.
With smoking rates going down and e-cigarettes encroaching, Brazil launches a new program for tobacco farmers seeking to leave the sector.
China is extending its sweeping review of beef imports, which could be bad news for producers in Brazil.
Once a staple of simple rural life, Brazilian donkeys are being slaughtered to feed an international market.
After a seven-year suspension, Brazilian poultry will return to a pre-listing system that streamlines exports to the European Union.
Despite its major farming sector, Brazil’s agricultural insurance market never fully developed, and crop coverage is at an all-time low.
Brazil’s tilapia farming sector is thriving. But the fish isn’t native to the country, and its introduction has caused environmental issues.
China and the US have struck a trade truce that includes ending the Chinese boycott of American soybeans. What does the new outlook mean for Brazilian farmers?
A volatile commodities market and high interest rates have driven a sharp rise in loan defaults among Brazilian farmers.
Agribusiness does not want to be responsible for the lion’s share of Brazil’s carbon emission goals.
Rice farmers brace for a hard year after prices plummeted. While the food is still a staple of traditional meals, Brazilians have been eating less and less of it
Despite pressure from a developing sector and its own agricultural research agency, Brazil has once again delayed regulating medicinal and industrial cannabis.
With a long history of dominance, soybean is still Brazil’s top farming output. But it has weathered rough periods.
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.
Pasture restoration is among Brazil’s big bets against deforestation, making already-degraded lands productive again.
Brazil has seen record pork production and exports, driven by rising demand in Asia and at home.
Brazil’s leading farm states are turning to capital markets to bankroll crops as traditional credit falls short.
As China bolsters soybean imports from Brazil, US farmers claim tariff disputes are hurting their business. Plus, antitrust watchdog CADE halts the Soy Moratorium.
Two of Brazil’s largest meat producers, BRF and Marfrig, are close to a merger that will further consolidate the country’s protein market.
