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.
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.
In a bid to deepen its strategic ties, Brazil is striking new deals to export its agricultural know-how to African nations.
A wave of startups is reshaping how farmers access credit, a financial segment that public banks have long dominated with subsidized loans
Brazilian organic agricultural production has grown 150% since 2013, but it is still far from fulfilling the country’s potential.
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.
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’
The Harvest Plan is Brazil’s main rural credit program, helping prop up the country’s crucial agriculture sector.
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?
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
DDGs are important feed supplements for animal farming, and Brazil is looking to start selling its sizeable production to China
Brazilian researchers have tested techniques for alternating between livestock, crops and timber production, in an attempt to increase productivity and lower the carbon footprint of farming
Regulators are trying to ensure the enforcement of a 2020 biofuel policy, in a move that pits powerful agricultural players against Brazilian fuel distributors
Brazil’s first case of bird flu in commercial chicken farming is set to end the country’s expanding export streak — which was boosted in the first place by disease outbreaks in other regions
The number of active agricultural technology startups in Brazil grew 25% since 2020, but remained stagnant last year as more mature firms gobbled up most of the capital
