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.
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.
