TheCattleSite Latest News: Brazil
30 October 2017
Cargill Strengthens Animal Nutrition Business in BrazilBRAZIL - Cargill has reached an agreement to acquire Integral Animal Nutrition, a cattle feed producer in Brazil. ...
03 October 2017
Genetic Study Investigates Ways to Increase Meat Productivity, TendernessBRAZIL - Brazil has the world's largest commercial beef herd, numbering over 225 million heads of cattle, yet only 20 per cent of Brazil's production is intended for export....
02 October 2017
Nutrition Key to Increasing Productivity in Intensive BreedingBRAZIL - Improving the productivity of Brazilian livestock means not only finding ways to make the cattle produce more meat or more milk, but also addressing issues such as diseases....
23 August 2017
Mechanism Impairing Production of Bovine Embryos RevealedBRAZIL - A longstanding obstacle to the market for bovine embryos is about to be removed. Researchers have described a hitherto unknown mechanism of lipid accumulation in oocytes that limits the success of in vitro production of bovine embryos....
18 August 2017
Molecule Increases Pregnancy Rate, Number of Offspring in CattleBRAZIL - Researchers at Inprenha Biotecnologia, a company based in Jaboticabal, São Paulo State, Brazil, working in partnership with colleagues at the University of São Paulo's Ribeirão Preto School of Pharmaceutical Sciences (FCFRP-USP), have discovered...
21 March 2017
China, EU Cut Imports of Brazil Meat Amid ScandalBRAZIL - China and the European Union curtailed meat imports from Brazil on Monday after police, in an anti-corruption probe criticized by the government as alarmist, accused inspectors in the world's biggest exporter of beef and poultry of taking bribes...
Brazil President Seeks to Calm Health Fears Over Beef ExportsBRAZIL - President Michel Temer, confronting a corruption scandal tarnishing Brazil’s lucrative meat industry, met with executives and foreign diplomats to assuage their health concerns over a sector responsible for US$12 billion in annual exports....
17 November 2016
Brazilian Beef Exports Continue to GrowBRAZIL - The Brazilian beef industry ended the month of October with more than US$ 449 million in exports, according to the Brazilian Association of Meat Exporters (Abiec)....
11 October 2016
Brazilian Beef Exports ClimbingBRAZIL - Brazil's fresh beef exports are performing well in Egypt, as the country purchased almost 19,000 tons from Brazil in September and ranked ahead of China....
07 October 2016
Israel Opens Market to Brazilian Beef SemenBRAZIL - The Israeli government has now opened its market to frozen bovine semen from Brazil....
05 September 2016
Brazil's Beef Sector Continues to GrowBRAZIL - The livestock production chain generated BRL 483.5 billion (USD 148.47 billion) last year, according to an annual report by the Association of Brazilian Beef Exporters (Abiec)....
12 August 2016
Brazil's Beef Exports to Arab Countries RisingBRAZIL - Brazilian beef exports to the Arab countries totalled USD 96.73 million in July, an increase of 13.77 per cent over the same month of last year, according to data from the Ministry of Industry, Foreign Trade and Services (MDIC) compiled by the...
05 August 2016
Nanostructures Aid Mastitis Fight in Brazilian ResearchBRAZIL - A product based on nanotechnology is the new focus of agricultural research to tackle bovine mastitis - inflammation of the mammary gland that affects dairy herds worldwide. ...
27 July 2016
Brazil Aims for Fresh Beef Exports to USBRAZIL - Brazil's minister for Agriculture, Livestock and Supply, Blairo Maggi, is in the US on a trade mission to enable greater beef trade between the two countries....
05 July 2016
Brazilian Inspectors Visit US to Expedite Beef TradeBRAZIL - Inspectors from the Brazilian agriculture department (MAPA) are visiting American slaughterhouses and meat storage facilities this week....
22 June 2016
Brazilian Dairy Sector Meets Government to Discuss Cutting Red TapeBRAZIL - Minister Blairo Maggi from Brazil's agriculture ministry MAPA has met with representatives of the dairy production chain to discuss ideas to reduce bureaucracy....
19 January 2016
Eating Less Beef Might Not Lower Brazilian EmissionsBRAZIL - Reduced meat consumption might not lower greenhouse gas emissions from one of the world’s biggest beef producing regions, new research has found....
13 January 2016
Brazil's Ag Exports at Record Levels in 2015BRAZIL - The amount of soybeans, corn, fresh chicken, coffee and pulp sold abroad in 2015 registered a record for Brazil's agribusiness trade....
24 November 2015
Brazil to Begin Large-Scale Live Cattle Exports to BoliviaBRAZIL - Bolivia has authorised Brazil to move live cattle for breeding across its borders for the first time, following a meeting between the agriculture departments of the two countries....
05 October 2015
New Sustainability Guide for Brazil's Livestock Industry Open for ConsultationBRAZIL - In order to further reinforce the growing sustainable practice of the Brazilian livestock sector, the Brazilian Roundtable on Sustainable Livestock (GTPS) has created a sustainability guide and is now opening it up to public consultation in...
29 September 2015
Possible Tax Lift for Brazil’s Dairy FarmersBRAZIL – Dairy farmers could be exempt from half of a 9.25 per cent levy on fresh milk sales as of 1 October, a supply chain meeting heard on Friday....
28 September 2015
Good Weather Helps Brazil to Record Grain CropBRAZIL – Favourable production conditions in key producing regions have pushed Brazil’s grain yields to bumper levels, lifting 6.4 per cent on the prior year....
24 September 2015
Brazil Beef Production Drops SharplyBRAZIL – Tight cattle supplies and weak domestic and international beef demand have put major downward pressure on Brazil’s beef output....
21 September 2015
Brazilian Cattle Genetics Get Green LightBRAZIL – An agreement has been reached to allow semen and embryos to pass into the Dominican Republic....
28 August 2015
Brazil to Export Stocker Cattle to TurkeyBRAZIL – Health officials granted Brazil permission to ship live store (stocker) cattle to Turkey last week. ...
20 August 2015
Brazil to Be Biggest Beef Producer in Five YearsBRAZIL – Brazilians are confident of muscling the US off world beef's top spot by becoming the biggest beef producer by 2020....
24 July 2015
Brazil Added Poland and Now Must Farm SmarterBRAZIL – Agricultural land expanded by 33 million hectares between 1990 and 2010 in Brazil and now the challenge is to drive for productivity and sustainability....
21 July 2015
Myanmar Opens Market to Brazilian Poultry, BeefBRAZIL - The Myanmar government has approved imports of Brazilian beef and poultry, Brazil's minister for Agriculture, Livestock and Supply Katia Abreu announced on Wednesday....
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