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

🚜 Brazilian agro and the Iran war
Brazil Agro

🚜 Brazilian agro and the Iran war

Rising fuel prices are worrying Brazilian farmers. Fertilizer purchases could become a new pressure point in the coming months.

Letícia Arcoverde
Letícia Arcoverde
Mar 16, 2026
🕋 Brazil's halal jitters
Brazil Agro

🕋 Brazil's halal jitters

Brazil dominates the global halal exports market, but new turbulence in the Middle East is putting the booming sector to the test.

Letícia Arcoverde
Letícia Arcoverde
Mar 9, 2026
🍭 Sugar low
Brazil Agro

🍭 Sugar low

As global supply surges, sugar prices have dropped to a five-year low. We take a look at how that affects Brazil, the world’s largest producer of the commodity.

Letícia Arcoverde
Letícia Arcoverde
Mar 2, 2026
😰 On shaky ground
Brazil Agro

😰 On shaky ground

One of the world’s largest sugar and ethanol players is struggling with rising debt. Its executives reacted by promising more divestments and a potential capital injection.

Letícia Arcoverde
Letícia Arcoverde
Feb 23, 2026
☣️ Farm biohazard
Brazil Agro

☣️ Farm biohazard

Brazilian farmers may be using more pesticides than necessary, with consequences not only for the environment and human health — but also for their own earnings.

Letícia Arcoverde
Letícia Arcoverde
Feb 16, 2026
🥩 Premium cut
Brazil Agro

🥩 Premium cut

Known abroad for its low prices and large scale, Brazil's beef industry is now seeking to expand into foreign markets for high-quality Angus meat.

Letícia Arcoverde
Letícia Arcoverde
Feb 9, 2026
🥭 Brazil puts its best fruit forward
Brazil Agro

🥭 Brazil puts its best fruit forward

Despite concern about US tariffs, Brazilian fruit exports had another record-breaking year in 2025. Now the sector sets its sights across the Atlantic.

Letícia Arcoverde
Letícia Arcoverde
Feb 2, 2026
🍫 The cocoa ain’t that hot
Brazil Agro

🍫 The cocoa ain’t that hot

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.

Letícia Arcoverde
Letícia Arcoverde
Jan 26, 2026
🌾 New grain on the block
Brazil Agro

🌾 New grain on the block

Some farmers in Brazil are replacing corn with sorghum, as the grain is better suited to drier climates

Letícia Arcoverde
Letícia Arcoverde
Jan 19, 2026
🌾 Say it ain’t soy
Brazil Agro

🌾 Say it ain’t soy

After a year of intense pressure from agribusiness and several court disputes, a key Amazon conservation mechanism loses its largest trader member.

Letícia Arcoverde
Letícia Arcoverde
Jan 12, 2026
🛫 Will SAF take off?
Brazil Agro

🛫 Will SAF take off?

Brazil has developed a steady ethanol market and solid biofuel credentials globally. Now it hopes it can do the same for Sustainable Aviation Fuel.

Letícia Arcoverde
Letícia Arcoverde
Jan 5, 2026
🥜 Brazilian peanuts
Brazil Agro

🥜 Brazilian peanuts

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.

Letícia Arcoverde
Letícia Arcoverde
Dec 29, 2025
🌎 Expanding markets
Brazil Agro

🌎 Expanding markets

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.

Letícia Arcoverde
Letícia Arcoverde
Dec 22, 2025
🚬 Up in smoke
Brazil Agro

🚬 Up in smoke

With smoking rates going down and e-cigarettes encroaching, Brazil launches a new program for tobacco farmers seeking to leave the sector.

Letícia Arcoverde
Letícia Arcoverde
Dec 15, 2025
🥩 China’s got beef
Brazil Agro

🥩 China’s got beef

China is extending its sweeping review of beef imports, which could be bad news for producers in Brazil.

Letícia Arcoverde
Letícia Arcoverde
Dec 8, 2025
🫏 Donkey trade
Brazil Agro

🫏 Donkey trade

Once a staple of simple rural life, Brazilian donkeys are being slaughtered to feed an international market.

Letícia Arcoverde
Letícia Arcoverde
Dec 1, 2025
🐔 The EU’s U-turn on Brazilian poultry
Brazil Agro

🐔 The EU’s U-turn on Brazilian poultry

After a seven-year suspension, Brazilian poultry will return to a pre-listing system that streamlines exports to the European Union.

Letícia Arcoverde
Letícia Arcoverde
Nov 24, 2025
☔ Sowing risk
Brazil Agro

☔ Sowing risk

Despite its major farming sector, Brazil’s agricultural insurance market never fully developed, and crop coverage is at an all-time low.

Letícia Arcoverde
Letícia Arcoverde
Nov 17, 2025
🐟 Fishy dilemma
Brazil Agro

🐟 Fishy dilemma

Brazil’s tilapia farming sector is thriving. But the fish isn’t native to the country, and its introduction has caused environmental issues.

Letícia Arcoverde
Letícia Arcoverde
Nov 10, 2025
🌾 Soybean wars are back
Brazil Agro

🌾 Soybean wars are back

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?

Letícia Arcoverde
Letícia Arcoverde
Nov 3, 2025
🚜 No pain, no grain
Brazil Agro

🚜 No pain, no grain

A volatile commodities market and high interest rates have driven a sharp rise in loan defaults among Brazilian farmers.

Letícia Arcoverde
Letícia Arcoverde
Oct 27, 2025
🌳 Climate dispute
Brazil Agro

🌳 Climate dispute

Agribusiness does not want to be responsible for the lion’s share of Brazil’s carbon emission goals.

Letícia Arcoverde
Letícia Arcoverde
Oct 20, 2025
🍚 Rice and fall
Brazil Agro

🍚 Rice and fall

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

Letícia Arcoverde
Letícia Arcoverde
Oct 13, 2025
👩🏻‍🔬 High potential
Brazil Agro

👩🏻‍🔬 High potential

Despite pressure from a developing sector and its own agricultural research agency, Brazil has once again delayed regulating medicinal and industrial cannabis.

Letícia Arcoverde
Letícia Arcoverde
Oct 6, 2025
🌾 Top crop
Brazil Agro

🌾 Top crop

With a long history of dominance, soybean is still Brazil’s top farming output. But it has weathered rough periods.

Letícia Arcoverde
Letícia Arcoverde
Sep 29, 2025
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